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 …

climate change technologies. The article then describes six proposals for maximizing the innovation potential of the patent … innovation system more closely on private funding and markets, and thus on the acquisition of patents at the front end of the … coming innovation pipeline. The choice to rely on private markets and patents is highly debatable. But it is certain to …

model of the patent system, liability rules outperformed property rules in generating innovation, productivity, and social … liability rules. Their article has become one of the cornerstones of modern legal scholarship, and the influence of the theory … intellectual property. Despite the prodigious influence this theory of legal rules has had, its implications have never been …

about promoting innovation? I argue that empirical progress in patent law depends on greater policy diversity (rather than … more robust theory development about the mechanisms by which innovation policies work. This pluralistic, evidence …Many scholars have wrestled with what I call the “first-order question” in patent law: What policies should we adopt to …

and genome related inventions, as the rise of patents may lead to “patent thickets” and royalty stacking, frustrating the … mitigate the alleged hindering effect of patent thickets and facilitate access to ICE and genome related inventions within the … borders of the patent system. Several approaches have been put forward to deal with the quagmire of overlapping patent rights …

The Federal Trade Commission's 2003 innovation report revealed an interesting fact: the pharmaceutical industry is … largely satisfied with today's patent system while the electronics, software and Internet industries are not. This article … inventive process for pharmaceuticals. Our patent system, however, has no analogous requirement for the other fields. In them …

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 …

fore. The first question is to what extent patent law guarantees public interest, contributes to public interest or, on the … contrary, limits public interest. The second question is to what extent public interest influences patent law. In an attempt to … entertains with patent law, from three different persectives: the notion of public interest sensu sensu stricto, the concept of …