Since the mapping of the human genome and the technical innovations in the field of biotechnology, patent law has gone … protection be? Whether the invention is a micro-organism capable of dissolving crude oil, or the gene of a soya plant, the … legislative acts and judicial decisions, ensuring a fair balance between the interests of patent right holders and third parties …

human researcher. This paradigm shift poses practical challenges to various aspects of patent law, including the … inventorship doctrine. Under US patent law, the touchstone of inventorship is conception, which is defined as the formation in the … mind of the inventor, of a definite and permanent idea of the complete and operative invention. Meanwhile, case law held …

‘invention' as the primary substance for “vital functions” of the Patent Law. The definitions are important enough in traditional … legal definition of the term ‘invention' for the 'vital functions' of the Patent Law. The mentioned proposal is based on my … primary substance of vital functions'. Thus I hold, that the 'water' for the Patent Law is the legal definition of the term …

A low-quality patent system threatens to slow the pace of technological progress. Concerns about low patent quality are … supported by estimates from litigation studies suggesting that the majority of patents granted by the U.S. patent office should … not have been issued. This paper proposes a new Bayesian method for measuring patent quality, based on twin patent …

readapts established patent indicators to capture the complexity, novelty, and novelty in recombination of the inventive … compounds per patent, +23% of new compounds per patent, and +2% of newer recombinations of compounds per patent is supported by …