The aim of this study is to elucidate whether arbitration offers advantages compared to the patent litigation system … which is currently existing in Germany. To answer this question three essential characteristics of the current German patent … injunctive relief provided by German patent law, and the so-called ‘injunction gap’ as a result of bifurcating infringement and …

designs over less attractive ones. It relies upon a data set that includes all design patent decisions from 1982 until 2010 in … which a court made a final determination of validity or infringement, with every design patent at issue therein classified … legal doctrine and empirical data reflect a decline in the importance of aesthetic considerations in design patent decisions …

The US case Akamai Technologies Inc v Limelight Networks Inc brought the patent world's attention to the issue of if … ‘divided performance' issue in the Australian context, finding that, contrary to an earlier article, no patent infringement …, thereby, generate certainty for the myriad stakeholders who use the patent system …

any patent claim that includes a mental step should lie outside patentability. Many courts have long disagreed with such a … draconian rule, and have instead upheld myriad patent claims that include mental steps. Recently there has been renewed interest … thoughts that cannot be avoided by protecting them from patentability, and thus preventing the iniquity of involuntary patent …

its intersection with the law, including issues for litigants in patent infringement suits. The investment in AI … technologies likely will lead to an increase in AI-related patent litigation, and the introduction of a nonhuman actor into a … traditional patent infringement analysis means that litigants will face unique issues stemming from the dynamic nature of AI …

vaccines are claimed in myriad – not Myriad – patents and patent applications, many of which are destined to be litigated over … their owners. While the world waits for this storm of patent litigation, federal courts continue to be busy with ownership … as top tens compiled by others. However, to quote an expression commonly heard in courts hearing patent cases, à chacun …

Courts and commentators are sharply divided about how to assess “reverse payment” patent settlements under antitrust … law. The essential problem is that a PTO-issued patent provides only a probabilistic indication that courts would hold … that the patent is actually valid and infringed, and parties have incentives to structure reverse payment settlements to …

Patent Court (UPC) that the UPC Committee conducted between June and September 2013. The focus is put on constitutional …

Patent decisions of european judges may have cross-border effect, either in actions for infringement or for revocation …. The project of a community patent system foresee a single central court, with cross-border authority. This solution is … wrong; there is no need of a centralized patent court …