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"Offer To Sell" As A Policy Tool, Lucas S. Osborn
"Offer To Sell" As A Policy Tool, Lucas S. Osborn
Lucas S. Osborn
Gone are the days when the term “offer” is confined to first-year contracts courses and the intricacies of contract formation. The offer concept has quietly migrated throughout the law. It now regulates behavior in areas as diverse as criminal law, environmental law, securities law, and intellectual property law. Despite its wide diffusion, the offer concept remains largely unstudied as a legal concept outside of its contract-law environment. This Article begins to fill that gap. The Article begins by deconstructing the meaning of a traditional contract-law “offer” to determine its policy role in contract law, and then compares that role with …
Best Practices For Drafting University Technology Assignment Agreements After Filmtec, Stanford V. Roche, And Patent Reform, Parker Miles Tresemer
Best Practices For Drafting University Technology Assignment Agreements After Filmtec, Stanford V. Roche, And Patent Reform, Parker Miles Tresemer
Parker Tresemer
Since the end of World War II, federally funded universities and private companies have been an integral part of continued American innovation and technological production. However, like most rational economic actors, universities and private companies are only willing to invest in federally funded technologies if they are guaranteed some sort of exclusive return on their investment. By granting federal contractors exclusive patent rights to their employee’s federally funded inventions, the Bayh-Dole Act provided the necessary incentives for private sector investment in federally funded technologies. However, case law subsequent to Bayh-Dole’s enactment has significantly undermined the system of incentives Congress intended …
The Gao 500: Effects Of Non-Practicing Entities On Patent Litigation, Robin C. Feldman, Sara Jeruss, Joshua Walker
The Gao 500: Effects Of Non-Practicing Entities On Patent Litigation, Robin C. Feldman, Sara Jeruss, Joshua Walker
Robin C Feldman
Any discussion of flaws in the United States patent system inevitably turns to the system’s modern villain: non-practicing entities, known more colorfully as patent trolls. For many years, however, discussions about non practicing entities have been long on speculation and short on data.
In 2011 Congress directed the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office to study the effects of non-practicing entities on patent litigation. Our study was performed at the request of the GAO, examining patent lawsuits filed over the past five years. The data confirm in a dramatic fashion what many scholars and commentators have suspected: patent monetization entities play a …