The post-grant review proceedings set up at the US Patent and Trademark Office's Patent
and Trial Appeal Board by the America Invents Act of 2011 have transformed the …

There are ninety-four federal district courts in the United States, but nearly half of the six
thousand patent cases filed in 2013 were filed in just two of those courts: the District of …

Capture-the notion that a federal agency can become controlled by the industry the agency
is supposed to be regulating-is a fundamental concern for administrative law scholars …

REINING IN making it more difficult for plaintiffs to demonstrate that a district court has venue
over a defendant. In doing so, the Supreme Court overturned twenty-seven years of patent …

For most of patent law's 200-plus year history, patent holders could sue only in the district
inhabited by the defendant. In 1990, the United States Court ofAppeals for the Federal …

The dramatic reform that upended patent law a decade ago has never fully come to grips
with a defect at the heart of its design. When the 2011 America Invents Act (AIA) took effect …

Since the days of 1979 when Landes and Posner published their seminal paper on"
Adjudication as a Private Good," it has become increasingly common to think of adjudication …

Stiflers of innovation, patent trolls use overbroad patents based on dated technology to
threaten litigation and bring infringement suits against inventors. Trolls, also known as …

Apple, Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, Sony, Cingular, FedEx, Nokia, Samsung, 3M, Oracle,
Skype, Wal-Mart, Honeywell, Nissan, Hyundai, Morgan Stanley, Verizon, Acer, Nintendo …

Of the three major ex post patent validity challenge mechanisms that the 2011 Leahy-Smith
America Invents Act'put into place, the third is beginning to show signs of use. Post-grant …