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When An Idea Is More Than Just An Idea: Insurance Coverage Of Business Method Patent Infringements Suits Under Advertising Injury Provisions Of Commercial General Liability Policies, Grace N. Witte
Journal of Intellectual Property Law
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Key Words And Tricky Phrases: An Analysis Of Patent Drafters' Attempts To Circumvent The Language Of 35 U.S.C. § 112, Stephen J. Stark
Key Words And Tricky Phrases: An Analysis Of Patent Drafters' Attempts To Circumvent The Language Of 35 U.S.C. § 112, Stephen J. Stark
Journal of Intellectual Property Law
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Patent Compensation Under 35 U.S.C. § 284, Vincent P. Tassinari
Patent Compensation Under 35 U.S.C. § 284, Vincent P. Tassinari
Journal of Intellectual Property Law
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Medical Process Patents: Can We Live Without Them? Should We?, Lara L. Douglass
Medical Process Patents: Can We Live Without Them? Should We?, Lara L. Douglass
Journal of Intellectual Property Law
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The Patent Reexamination Reform Act Of 1994: A New Era Of The Third Party Participation, Shannon M. Casey
The Patent Reexamination Reform Act Of 1994: A New Era Of The Third Party Participation, Shannon M. Casey
Journal of Intellectual Property Law
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Intel V. Ulsi System Technology, Mark J. Rozman
Intel V. Ulsi System Technology, Mark J. Rozman
Journal of Intellectual Property Law
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Protection Of Computers And Computer Software Before The United States International Trade Commission: In Re Certain Personal Computers And Components Thereof, Nicholas N. Leach
Protection Of Computers And Computer Software Before The United States International Trade Commission: In Re Certain Personal Computers And Components Thereof, Nicholas N. Leach
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
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Scaling The Patent System, Christina Mulligan, Timothy B. Lee
Scaling The Patent System, Christina Mulligan, Timothy B. Lee
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Why do firms in some industries ignore patents when developing new products? This paper posits a simple but novel answer to this long-puzzling question: firms ignore patents because they are unable to discover the patents their activities might infringe. The costs of finding relevant patents, which we call discovery costs, are prohibitively high.
Not all industries face high patent discovery costs. Chemical patents are "indexable," meaning that relevant patents can be efficiently retrieved by chemical formula. As a result, discovery costs in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries are low, and inadvertent infringement by firms in these industries is rare. But …