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The Ontological Function Of The Patent Document, Andrew Chin
The Ontological Function Of The Patent Document, Andrew Chin
Faculty Publications
With the passage and impending implementation of the “first-to-file” provisions of the America Invents Act of 2011, the U.S. patent system must rely more than ever before on patent documents for its own ontological commitments concerning the existence of claimed kinds of useful objects and processes. This Article provides a comprehensive description of the previously unrecognized function of the patent document in incurring and securing warrants to these ontological commitments, and the respective roles of legal doctrines and practices in the patent system’s ontological project. Among other contributions, the resulting metaphysical account serves to reconcile competing interpretations of the written …
The Ontological Function Of The Patent Document, Andrew Chin
The Ontological Function Of The Patent Document, Andrew Chin
Andrew Chin
With the passage and impending implementation of the “first-to-file” provisions of the America Invents Act of 2011, the U.S. patent system must rely more than ever before on patent documents for its own ontological commitments concerning the existence of claimed kinds of useful objects and processes. This Article provides a comprehensive description of the previously unrecognized function of the patent document in incurring and securing warrants to these ontological commitments, and the respective roles of legal doctrines and practices in the patent system’s ontological project. Among other contributions, the resulting metaphysical account serves to reconcile competing interpretations of the written …
Standards And Related Intellectual Property Issues For Climate Change Technology, Jorge Contreras
Standards And Related Intellectual Property Issues For Climate Change Technology, Jorge Contreras
Working Papers
Almost every product sold today must conform to standards, whether relating to its design, manufacture, operation, testing, safety, sale or disposal, and sometimes to many of these at once. At their root, standards are no more than written requirements or design features of a product, service or other activity. They can be breathtakingly detailed or disarmingly general, ranging from thousands of pages in length to just a few sentences. Standards are set by a wide range of bodies, from governmental agencies to industry consortia to multinational treaty organizations. Some standards are adopted into local, state or federal legislation and attain …
Patent Reform And Best Mode: A Signal To The Patent Office Or A Step Toward Elimination?, Ryan G. Vacca
Patent Reform And Best Mode: A Signal To The Patent Office Or A Step Toward Elimination?, Ryan G. Vacca
Akron Law Faculty Publications
On September 16, 2011, President Obama signed the America Invents Act (AIA), the first major overhaul of the patent system in nearly sixty years. This article analyzes the recent change to patent law's best mode requirement under the AIA. Before the AIA, patent applicants were required, at the time of submitting their application, to disclose the best mode of carrying out the invention as contemplated by the inventor. A failure to disclose the best mode was a basis for a finding of invalidity of the relevant claims or could render the entire patent unenforceable under the doctrine of inequitable conduct. …
Patent Reform And Best Mode: A Signal To The Patent Office Or A Step Toward Elimination?, Ryan G. Vacca
Patent Reform And Best Mode: A Signal To The Patent Office Or A Step Toward Elimination?, Ryan G. Vacca
Ryan G. Vacca
On September 16, 2011, President Obama signed the America Invents Act (AIA), the first major overhaul of the patent system in nearly sixty years. This article analyzes the recent change to patent law's best mode requirement under the AIA. Before the AIA, patent applicants were required, at the time of submitting their application, to disclose the best mode of carrying out the invention as contemplated by the inventor. A failure to disclose the best mode was a basis for a finding of invalidity of the relevant claims or could render the entire patent unenforceable under the doctrine of inequitable conduct. …
Ethics In Intellectual Property Negotiations: Issues And Illustrations, Lisa A. Dolak
Ethics In Intellectual Property Negotiations: Issues And Illustrations, Lisa A. Dolak
Lisa A Dolak
Negotiating – formally or informally – is a characteristic aspect of law practice. The requisite skills are acquired “on the job” and, for some, via the formal study of negotiation processes and attributes. The negotiator has much to consider, including the client’s goals and interests, likely litigation outcomes should negotiations fail or any ultimate agreement be breached, and what the counterparty is likely seeking to accomplish.
The challenges include negotiating within the limits imposed by the ethics rules. This paper identifies key authorities relevant to negotiation ethics and illustrates their operation in the context of hypotheticals based on intellectual property …
Building The Global Green Patent Highway: A Proposal For International Harmonization Of Green Technology Fast Track Programs, Eric L. Lane
Building The Global Green Patent Highway: A Proposal For International Harmonization Of Green Technology Fast Track Programs, Eric L. Lane
Eric L. Lane
As governments around the world recognize the importance of development and implementation of clean technologies in mitigating climate change, they have looked to patenting procedures as a mechanism to promote and accelerate green innovation. In particular, many national intellectual property offices have implemented programs that provide expedited examination of patent applications directed to green technologies. These green patent fast track programs vary widely in their rules, both in eligibility requirements and process parameters. Due to these disparities, it can be costly and time consuming for applicants and their patent attorneys to select which green technology patent fast track programs to …
Renewing Healthy Competition: Compulsory Licenses And Why Abuses Of The Trips Article 31 Standards Are Most Damaging To The United States Healthcare Industry, Jon Matthews
The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law
No abstract provided.
Federal Patent Takings, Christopher S. Storm
Federal Patent Takings, Christopher S. Storm
The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law
No abstract provided.
The "Evolving Written Description Doctrine" And The Search For Specificity (A.K.A. Adequacy Is The Matter Of Invention.), Gerald R. Prettyman Jr.
The "Evolving Written Description Doctrine" And The Search For Specificity (A.K.A. Adequacy Is The Matter Of Invention.), Gerald R. Prettyman Jr.
The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law
In 1996, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Markman that claim construction was a matter of law for the judge to decide. There was hope in the patent bar that Markman would bring uniformity to claim construction and a reduction to the lengthy process of patent litigation. Some authors report instead that the claim construction reversal rate is increasing. Other authors question the consistency of the rulings from the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Circuit Judge Rader of the Federal Circuit recently named this controversy the “Evolving Written Description Doctrine.” Behind this controversy primarily lies judicial interpretation of …
To The Front Of The Line: Spurring Biotech Collaboration Through Patent Fast-Track Examination Vouchers, Scott E. Yackey
To The Front Of The Line: Spurring Biotech Collaboration Through Patent Fast-Track Examination Vouchers, Scott E. Yackey
Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy
No abstract provided.
Standards, Patents, And The National Smart Grid, Jorge Contreras
Standards, Patents, And The National Smart Grid, Jorge Contreras
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is charged with overseeing the identification and selection of hundreds of standards that will be required to implement the national Smart Grid project. However, the benefits that could be realized from Smart Grid standardization could be threatened by a growing number of patents that cover Smart Grid architecture and technologies. If such patents are not revealed until technology is broadly distributed throughout the network (“locked-in”), significant disruption could occur when patent holders seek to collect unanticipated rents from large segments of the market. Moreover, even if patents are revealed early in the …
Patent Attorney Malpractice: Case-Within-A-Case-Within-A-Case, Samuel Oddi
Patent Attorney Malpractice: Case-Within-A-Case-Within-A-Case, Samuel Oddi
Akron Law Faculty Publications
As literary devices, a “story-within-a story” and a “play-within-a-play” have a long lineage. Shakespeare seems to have been particularly fond of these devices. The legal analog may be seen as the “case-within-a-case” (“trial-within-a-trial,” “suit-within-a-suit”) arising in legal malpractice cases. The case-within-a-case terminology seems to be the most commonly used and hence will be used herein. While it is clear that the “case” is the malpractice case, it is not so clear what the “case-within-” is, which is usually referred to as the “underlying case.” Often, it seems to be presumed that the underlying case is limited to litigation, which would …
Ethics In Intellectual Property Negotiations: Issues And Illustrations, Lisa A. Dolak
Ethics In Intellectual Property Negotiations: Issues And Illustrations, Lisa A. Dolak
Lisa A Dolak
Negotiating – formally or informally – is a characteristic aspect of law practice. The requisite skills are acquired “on the job” and, for some, via the formal study of negotiation processes and attributes. The negotiator has much to consider, including the client’s goals and interests, likely litigation outcomes should negotiations fail or any ultimate agreement be breached, and what the counterparty is likely seeking to accomplish.
The challenges include negotiating within the limits imposed by the ethics rules. This paper identifies key authorities relevant to negotiation ethics and illustrates their operation in the context of hypotheticals based on intellectual property …
Patent Reversion: An Employee-Inventor's Second Bite At The Apple, Richard Kamprath
Patent Reversion: An Employee-Inventor's Second Bite At The Apple, Richard Kamprath
Richard Kamprath
In an attempt to more fully compensate employee-inventors without harming the return on investment of employers, a patent reversion is proposed in which the rights to the patent revert to joint ownership between the original inventor and the current owner. In Section I, the background of the relationship between employer and employee-inventor will be discussed in terms of patent rights. This section will outline the problems inherent in the pre-assignment status quo of these rights from employees to employers. Section II will begin with Part A, which is a review of previously proposed solutions to the under-compensation of employee-inventors. The …
Patent Claim Apportionment, Patentee Injury And Sequential Invention, Amy L. Landers
Patent Claim Apportionment, Patentee Injury And Sequential Invention, Amy L. Landers
Amy L Landers
Reasonable royalty compensation for patent infringement is the most popular form of recovery and becomes more so every year. This may be based on the unfortunate but accurate perception that patentees can win big using the overly malleable legal standards that now govern such awards. One of the most glaring shortcomings of the standard is that it permits an award of a reasonable royalty based on doctrine that has lost touch with its statutory purpose.
This article sets forth a theory of patentee injury to establish a causative link between the inventive contribution and the reasonable royalty award. After doing …
Patent Cases And Jurisdiction Controversies, Amelia Smith Rinehart
Patent Cases And Jurisdiction Controversies, Amelia Smith Rinehart
Amelia Smith Rinehart
No abstract provided.
Valuing Publication And Attribution In Intellectual Property, Christopher Sprigman, Christopher Buccafusco, Zachary Burns
Valuing Publication And Attribution In Intellectual Property, Christopher Sprigman, Christopher Buccafusco, Zachary Burns
Christopher Sprigman
This is the third in a series of articles focusing on the experimental economics of intellectual property. In earlier work, we have experimentally studied the ways in which creators assign monetary value to the things that they create. That research has suggested that creators are subject to a systematic bias that leads them to overvalue their work. This bias, which we have called the 'creativity effect,' potentially results in inefficient markets in IP, because creators may be unwilling to license their works for rational amounts. Our prior research, however, like American IP law itself, focused exclusively on the monetary value …
Top Tens In 2011: Patent, Trademark, Copyright And Trade Secret Cases, Stephen M. Mcjohn
Top Tens In 2011: Patent, Trademark, Copyright And Trade Secret Cases, Stephen M. Mcjohn
Suffolk University Law School Faculty Works
This paper discusses notable intellectual property law cases in the United States in 2011. Patent cases addressed such issues as the scope of patent subject matter (the patentability of human genes and methods for testing for genetic links to cancer), the standards for challenges to the validity of patents (such as where technology that was not considered by the patent office is put in evidence), and the breadth of patent protection (especially with respect to the scope of protection for software patents). Other cases tested the borders of trademark protection – distinctiveness, functionality, and the interplay between trademark law and …
Usefulness Varies By Country: The Utility Requirement Of Patent Law In The United States, Europe And Canada, Jay Erstling, Amy M. Salmela, Justin N. Woo
Usefulness Varies By Country: The Utility Requirement Of Patent Law In The United States, Europe And Canada, Jay Erstling, Amy M. Salmela, Justin N. Woo
Faculty Scholarship
The requirement that an invention have utility is one of the most fundamental of the patent laws. In the United States, for example, the concept of utility is rooted in the Constitution: Article 1, Section 8, gives Congress the power to grant exclusive rights to inventors in order “[t]o promote the progress of Science and useful Arts.” Other jurisdictions recognize utility in the form of inventions that have “industrial applicability” or are “capable of exploitation in industry,” with all of these terms and phrases generally viewed as being synonymous.
Historically, nearly every jurisdiction has excluded some type of invention from …
Patent Attorney Malpractice: Case-Within-A-Case-Within-A-Case, Samuel Oddi
Patent Attorney Malpractice: Case-Within-A-Case-Within-A-Case, Samuel Oddi
Samuel Oddi
As literary devices, a “story-within-a story” and a “play-within-a-play” have a long lineage. Shakespeare seems to have been particularly fond of these devices. The legal analog may be seen as the “case-within-a-case” (“trial-within-a-trial,” “suit-within-a-suit”) arising in legal malpractice cases. The case-within-a-case terminology seems to be the most commonly used and hence will be used herein. While it is clear that the “case” is the malpractice case, it is not so clear what the “case-within-” is, which is usually referred to as the “underlying case.” Often, it seems to be presumed that the underlying case is limited to litigation, which would …
Environmental Initiative And The Role Of The Uspto’S Green Technology Pilot Program, Sarah M. Wong
Environmental Initiative And The Role Of The Uspto’S Green Technology Pilot Program, Sarah M. Wong
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
This Comment will address the environmental problems that confront the U.S. and the steps that the government has taken to solve them. Specifically, research funding and patent protection have provided the green industry an incentive to increase research and development of green technology. One of the more recent programs to help improve the patent protection of green technology, the Green Technology Pilot Program, accelerates the status of green technology through the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) patenting process. This Comment will suggest that the Program become a permanent feature within the USPTO and that it be expanded to …
Websites And Intangible Asset Amortization Under 26 U.S.C. § 197: A Marriage That Bears Little Fruit, Christopher H. Bowen
Websites And Intangible Asset Amortization Under 26 U.S.C. § 197: A Marriage That Bears Little Fruit, Christopher H. Bowen
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
Websites are not only an important part of our electronic lives, they are an important financial and business asset in their own right. With the growth of the internet as a commercial, informational, and recreational resource, companies utilize websites as an important part of their corporate financial portfolio and structure. The increased value of websites that comes from this growth has made websites a valuable asset that companies seek to use as they would other business assets. One important consideration is how the value of websites will be treated upon sale or exchange. In other words, is the website an …
God In The Machine: Encryption Algorithms And The Abstract Exemption To Patentability, Jeremy R. Hager
God In The Machine: Encryption Algorithms And The Abstract Exemption To Patentability, Jeremy R. Hager
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
This Comment explores the impact of the United States Supreme Court’s recent decision in Bilski v. Kappos upon the patentability of encryption schemes for digital content. While the majority of commentary concerning this anticlimactic decision has focused on the heated topic of software patents, little attention has been paid to the analogous field of cryptographic technology—and the patentability thereof—in light of Bilski’s “guidance.” Cryptographic technology, commonly utilized to protect digital content under the moniker Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology, has been utilized by all major content-producing industries to prevent copying by consumers of various content mediums, from software to …
The Technological Edge, Elizabeth I. Winston
The Technological Edge, Elizabeth I. Winston
Scholarly Articles
To grant a patent to natural phenomena hinders innovation, taking back from the public that which the public has a right to possess. To deny a patent to man’s manufacture undercuts the fundamental bargain of the patent system. All inventions, at their core, may be deemed natural, rendering it difficult to distinguish between man’s manufacture and natural phenomena. Determining whether the innovative aspect of the product is a technological one, rather than a natural one, can clarify whether the patent grant promotes the progress of science and the useful arts. The higher the level of skill in the art required …
Patent Law As Public Law, Megan M. La Belle
Patent Law As Public Law, Megan M. La Belle
Scholarly Articles
Historically, patent litigation has been viewed and treated primarily as private law litigation, as opposed to public law litigation. This paradigm has begun to shift, however, as various stakeholders have come to acknowledge the profound impact that the patent system – and particularly invalid patents – have on the public at large. Yet, in order for a public law regime to succeed, there must be a host of enforcement mechanisms available, including the opportunity for privately-initiated litigation.
Public interest organizations have played a prominent role in the enforcement of certain public rights, such as free speech, equal protection, and environmental …
Patent Reform And Best Mode: A Signal To The Patent Office Or A Step Toward Elimination?, Ryan G. Vacca
Patent Reform And Best Mode: A Signal To The Patent Office Or A Step Toward Elimination?, Ryan G. Vacca
Law Faculty Scholarship
On September 16, 2011, President Obama signed the America Invents Act (AIA), the first major overhaul of the patent system in nearly sixty years. This article analyzes the recent change to patent law's best mode requirement under the AIA. Before the AIA, patent applicants were required, at the time of submitting their application, to disclose the best mode of carrying out the invention as contemplated by the inventor. A failure to disclose the best mode was a basis for a finding of invalidity of the relevant claims or could render the entire patent unenforceable under the doctrine of inequitable conduct. …
Gat, Solvay, And The Centralization Of Patent Litigation In Europe, Marketa Trimble
Gat, Solvay, And The Centralization Of Patent Litigation In Europe, Marketa Trimble
Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
The Private And Social Costs Of Patent Trolls, Michael J. Meurer, James Bessen, Jennifer Ford
The Private And Social Costs Of Patent Trolls, Michael J. Meurer, James Bessen, Jennifer Ford
Faculty Scholarship
The emergence of nonpracticing entities (NPEs) — firms that purchase and hold patent rights but neither innovate themselves nor use the patents in the production of goods — is supposed to incentivize innovation by providing a ready market for innovators. We test this idea empirically and find that NPEs produce little returns for innovators or for their own shareholders, but they place significant costs on productive firms that violate patents inadvertently. Indeed, it appears that NPEs — often disparagingly called “patent trolls” — discourage productive firms from innovating for fear that they will then be subject to a patent troll …
The High Cost And Value Of Patents: Finding The Appropriate Balance Between The Rights Of The Inventor And The Advancement Of Society, Andy Segal
CMC Senior Theses
Property rights are the backbone of Western Civilization. Capitalism can only be successful if individuals feel secure about the ownership of their assets. Patents are the property rights granted to the inventor by the government. Without these rights, inventors will find it extremely difficult monetizing their contributions to society. Thus, in an effort to incentivize innovation and commit society to human progress, our Founding Fathers built our country on a strong set of intellectual property rights.
At the same time, nothing impedes innovation like a monopoly and, in essence, all a patent amounts to is a monopoly, the right to …