China has a wide-range of patent-specific and other patent-related policies in-place, many of which are at least …

researchers and healthcare providers without infringing a gene patent. Many have voiced concern that this perceived thicket of … mentioned in a US patent claim. The myth that 20% of human genes are “patented” has taken root because too many have incorrectly … inferred that the mere “mention” of a gene in a patent claim precludes all uses of the gene. To better understand the actual …

as key-words "university", "patent", "license", "Bayh-Dole", "triple helix" and by an abstract-by-abstract reading of all …

This Article explores the claiming systems of patent and copyright law. It first develops a two-dimensional taxonomy …: claiming can be either peripheral or central and either by characteristic or by exemplar. Patent law has principally adopted a … system of peripheral claiming, requiring patentees to articulate by the time of the patent grant their invention's bounds …

Since the Federal Circuit’s 2007 In re Bilski decision and the Supreme Court’s 2008 Bilski v. Kappos decision, patent … law’s subject-matter eligibility standard under 35 U.S.C. § 101 has been uncertain. This paper posits patent law's patent …. Somewhat analogous to copyright law, it also presents a Downward Patent-Eligibility Hand Abstractions Test from an alleged …

intellectual property coalitions that fought these battles have splintered with copyright and patent holders pursuing initiatives … cohesiveness of their coalition. Patent interests groups, which are splintered, have struggled to obtain comparatively modest … patent law reforms. However, with the failed push to implement ACTA and the success of the patent sector in getting the AIA …

Article I USPTO’s patent invalidation power. A number of these challenges remain pending today. This article addresses several …

Empirical evidence on the interaction between regular patent and second tier patent systems in advanced economies is … almost non-existent. This paper studies how the abolition of the Dutch short-term patent system in June 2008 was related with … the patent filing activity at the Dutch patent office. The abolition was motivated by the uncertainty that the unexamined …

rights (IPR) regimes. Weak IPR regimes usually feature weak patent enforcement, such as relatively low level of compensation … among utility models- the type of patents inferior to invention patents. I also document that China’s patent infringement …. These empirical patterns suggest that weak IPR regimes might create a “lemon market” for patent protection in which truly …