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Ending Patent Exceptionalism & Structuring The Rule Of Reason: The Supreme Court Opens The Door For Both, Robin C. Feldman
Ending Patent Exceptionalism & Structuring The Rule Of Reason: The Supreme Court Opens The Door For Both, Robin C. Feldman
Robin C Feldman
A patent gives one an opportunity to exploit an idea. It is not intended as a universal pass for exploiting the legal system. Nevertheless, a notion I would call patent exceptionalism has been allowing patent holders to exercise free rein. It is a dangerous approach that fails to distinguish between deploying the right and deploying the system. This article describes patent exceptionalism and explains how the Supreme Court decision in FTC v. Actavis moves away from it.
The article also explains how the appeal of patent exceptionalism intertwines with antitrust. To put it bluntly, patent exceptionalism is alluring because it …
Patent Trolling--Why Bio & Pharmaceuticals Are At Risk, Robin C. Feldman, W. Nicholson Price Ii
Patent Trolling--Why Bio & Pharmaceuticals Are At Risk, Robin C. Feldman, W. Nicholson Price Ii
Robin C Feldman
Patent trolls — also known variously as non-practicing entities, patent assertion entities, and patent monetizers — are a top priority on legislative and regulatory reform agendas. In the modern debates, however, the biopharmaceutical industry goes conspicuously unmentioned. Although biopharmaceuticals are paradigmatically centered on patents, conventional wisdom holds that biopharmaceuticals are largely unthreatened by trolls. This article shows that the conventional wisdom is wrong, both theoretically and descriptively. In particular, the article presents a ground-breaking study of the life science holdings of 5 major universities to determine if these might be attractive to monetizers.
This was deliberately a light, rather than …
Transparency, Robin C. Feldman
Transparency, Robin C. Feldman
Robin C Feldman
The United States patent regime is a quintessential notice system. Implicit in its design is the concept that one attempting to license a patent can identify those who hold the requisite rights and the territory that the patent holders claim as their own. As the system has evolved, however, it bears little resemblance to the idealized form.
Little scholarship has addressed problems related to notice within the modern patent system, largely because these problems have sprung up so recently. In the last five to seven years, an entire Hobbit’s world has been created under the foliage. Moreover, historic scholarly discussions …
Patent Demands & Startup Companies: The View From The Venture Capital Community, Robin C. Feldman
Patent Demands & Startup Companies: The View From The Venture Capital Community, Robin C. Feldman
Robin C Feldman
This paper presents a study of patent demands against venture-backed startups, conducted through members of the National Venture Capital Association and their portfolio companies. The results of surveying 200 venture capitalists and their portfolio companies provide strong indications of the impact that patent demands are having on the venture-backed community. Both the companies and the venture capitalists overwhelming believe that patent demands have a negative impact on the venture-backed community, with all or most of those assertions coming from entities whose core activity involves licensing or litigating patents. These impacts are described in terms of the specific costs expended by …