Alice v. CLS Bank (“Alice”) set new software and business method patent eligibility guidelines for patent examiners and … patent assertion entities (PAEs), but PAEs continue to purchase pre-Alice software patents at similar rates. Litigation rates …-affected industries. We provide evidence that startups in these industries were not reliant on favorable patent rights for funding even …

five factors describe the phenomena largely responsible for the current mass extinction event, and patent law offers … valuable assistance in combating each one. Though it cannot offer a complete solution to the biodiversity crisis, the patent … system can offer powerful tools to help save biodiversity. On first inspection, patent law might appear an unlikely ally for …

number of arguments for limiting or even eliminating software patents. In particular, they claim that the U.S. Patent and … Trademark Office has done a poor job of reviewing software patent applications, resulting in obvious, trivial patents. They also … exist with the patent-granting process, they do not rise to the level of justifying a ban on software patents. Instead …

vested in the components of a scalable quantum computer? Are there sufficient market-set innovation incentives for the … the benefits of this cutting edge technology? Without hindering sustainable innovation, including the apportionment of … rights, responsibilities and duties of care? What are the effects of standardization and certification on innovation …

The purpose of patent policy is to balance the incentive to invent against the ability of the economy to utilize and … administrative costs of $4.5 billion annually. This brings the total deadweight loss created by our “dented” patent system to be at … economic costs from our existing patent system, such as the consumer welfare losses from granting monopoly rents to patent …

. This exercise was part of the "UK Innovation Strategy: leading the future by creating it", which set out the government …’s long-term plan for delivering innovation-led growth. The call for views and this submission focus on issues of (i …

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 …

reduce standardization, impede innovation, and constrain market negotiation of patent license agreements. The article … decision making. SEP holders and implementers create negotiated FRAND commitments through patent license agreements. Courts … introduces the concept of the “patent run-around” to describe potential effects of “licensing to all” regulations. The article …