What happens when a contract, the Patent Act, and the Bayh-Dole Act purport to give ownership in the same patent to the government, a university, and a university researcher, all at the same time? The US Supreme Court recently answered this question in Stanford Univ. v Roche Molecular Sys.,...

On October 11, 2011, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in a 2-1 decision, issued an opinion affirming a decision of the US International Trade Commission (ITC) barring importation of a product made in China by a Chinese company using trade secrets...

This article reflects on three recent US patent decisions involving biotechnology: Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc.; Bowman v. Monsanto Company; and Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association v. Monsanto Company3 (commonly referred to as the OSGATA case)

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between patenting, innovation, and federal antitrust enforcement towards firms in the manufacturing sector. I examine whether the likelihood of antitrust litigation is influenced by patent histories and R&D expenditures, after...

This paper conceptualizes four patent rights stakeholders. These groupings are developed by integrating pre-existing management literature concerning intellectual property appropriability and law and economics literature concerning property rights. The governance mechanisms available to the four...

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between patenting, innovation, and federal antitrust enforcement towards firms in the manufacturing sector. I examine whether the likelihood of antitrust litigation is influenced by patent histories and R&D expenditures, after...

Law and economics research has had an enormous impact on the laws of contracts, torts, property, crimes, corporations, and antitrust, as well as public regulation and fundamental rights. The Law and Economics of Patent Damages, Antitrust, and Legal Process examines several areas of important...