Anticompetitive collusion by intellectual property owners frequently triggered antitrust enforcement during the twentieth century. An emerging area of litigation and scholarship, however, involves conspiracies by potential licensees of intellectual property to reduce or eliminate opportunities...

This article analyzes the Innovation Act, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives on a promise to deal with the problem of "patent trolls" or non-practicing entities (NPEs). The article surveys the NPE controversy from a variety of perspectives, including the history and theory of...

The law of innovation balances private returns on investment against benefits to the public. Increasing intellectual property’s profitability acts as an inducement to spend money on research and testing, but threatens to increase costs to the public both directly and in terms of reduced...