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Full-Text Articles in Law
Patent Club Convergence Among Nations, Daniel Benoliel
Patent Club Convergence Among Nations, Daniel Benoliel
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
The article uncovers profound empirical and conceptual shortcomings concerning the "one-size-fits-all" innovation and intellectual property-related policies used internationally. These policies surely are funneled by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) or the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) archetypical Development Agenda. The article offers a novel delineation of these policies vis-à-vis distinct country groups or “convergence clubs.”
In so doing, the article offers a unique statistical model carrying out hierarchal cluster analyses for sixty-six innovating countries twice during the 1996–2011 time series period. The model detects country groups that are …
Patent Markets: An Opportunity For Technology Diffusion And Frand Licensing?, Stéphanie Chuffart-Finsterwald
Patent Markets: An Opportunity For Technology Diffusion And Frand Licensing?, Stéphanie Chuffart-Finsterwald
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
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Food For Thought: Genetically Modified Seeds As De Facto Standard Essential Patents, Benjamin M. Cole, Brent J. Horton, Ryan G. Vacca
Food For Thought: Genetically Modified Seeds As De Facto Standard Essential Patents, Benjamin M. Cole, Brent J. Horton, Ryan G. Vacca
Law Faculty Scholarship
For several years, courts have been improperly calculating damages in cases involving the unlicensed use of genetically-modified (GM) seed technology. In particular, when courts determine patent damages based on the hypothetical negotiation method, they err in exaggerating these damages to a point where no rational negotiator would agree. In response, we propose a limited affirmative defense of an implied license due to the patent’s status as a de facto standard essential patent. To be classified as a de facto standard essential patent, the farmer must prove three elements that reflect the peculiarities of GM seeds used in farming: (1) dominance, …
Food For Thought: Genetically Modified Seeds As De Facto Standard-Essential Patents, Benjamin M. Cole, Brent J. Horton, Ryan Vacca
Food For Thought: Genetically Modified Seeds As De Facto Standard-Essential Patents, Benjamin M. Cole, Brent J. Horton, Ryan Vacca
University of Colorado Law Review
For several years, courts have improperly calculated damages in cases involving the unlicensed use of genetically modified (GM) seed technology. In particular, when courts determine patent damages based on the hypothetical negotiation method, they err in exaggerating these damages to a point where no rational negotiator would agree. In response, we propose a limited affirmative defense of an implied license due to the patent's status as a de facto standard-essential patent. To be classified as a de facto standard-essential patent, the farmer must prove three elements that reflect the peculiarities of GM seeds used in farming: (1) dominance, (2) impracticability, …
The Copyright/Patent Boundary, Viva R. Moffat
The Copyright/Patent Boundary, Viva R. Moffat
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
Trolls Or Great Inventors: Case Studies Of Patent Assertion Entities, Ryan T. Holte
Trolls Or Great Inventors: Case Studies Of Patent Assertion Entities, Ryan T. Holte
Saint Louis University Law Journal
There has been much debate about the economic harms caused by patent infringement lawsuits filed by patent holders who do not make or sell products covered by their own patents—entities pejoratively referred to as “patent trolls.” This debate has thus far been largely theoretical or based on broad industry-wide data. The purpose of this Article is to present a focused empirical report that has previously been lacking—detailed information regarding the inventors themselves, the patent assertion entities (PAEs) that represent them, and the stories behind their patents. The research for this Article centers on two instructive case studies: (1) MercExchange, L.L.C., …
Understanding The Relationship Between The Doctrine Of Patent Exhaustion And Self-Replicating Technologies After Bowman V. Monsanto Co., Amy S. Berg
Saint Louis University Law Journal
No abstract provided.
In Re Mstg And The Shifting Role Of Litigation-Related Patent Licenses In Reasonable Royalty Rate Determinations, Whitney Levandusky
In Re Mstg And The Shifting Role Of Litigation-Related Patent Licenses In Reasonable Royalty Rate Determinations, Whitney Levandusky
Journal of Business & Technology Law
No abstract provided.
The Direct Costs From Npe Disputes, Michael J. Meurer, James Bessen
The Direct Costs From Npe Disputes, Michael J. Meurer, James Bessen
Faculty Scholarship
In the past, “non-practicing entities” (NPEs), popularly known as “patent trolls,” have helped small inventors profit from their inventions. Is this true today or, given the unprecedented levels of NPE litigation, do NPEs reduce innovation incentives? Using a survey of defendants and a database of litigation, this paper estimates the direct costs to defendants arising from NPE patent assertions. We estimate that firms accrued $29 billion of direct costs in 2011. Although large firms accrued over half of direct costs, most of the defendants were small or medium-sized firms. Moreover, an examination of publicly listed NPEs indicates that little of …
Saving The Federal Circuit, Paul Gugliuzza
Saving The Federal Circuit, Paul Gugliuzza
Faculty Scholarship
In a recent, attention-grabbing speech, the Chief Judge of the Seventh Circuit, Diane Wood, argued that Congress should abolish the Federal Circuit’s exclusive jurisdiction over patent cases. Exclusive jurisdiction, she said, provides too much legal uniformity, which harms the patent system. In this response to Judge Wood’s thoughtful speech, I seek to highlight two important premises underlying her argument, neither of which is indisputably true.
The first premise is that the Federal Circuit actually provides legal uniformity. Judge Wood suggests that, due to the Federal Circuit’s exclusive jurisdiction, patent doctrine is insufficiently “percolated,” meaning that it lacks mechanisms through which …
Opening Remarks, October 4, 2013 Symposium: Resolving Ip Disputes: Calling For An Alternative Paradigm, James Levin
Opening Remarks, October 4, 2013 Symposium: Resolving Ip Disputes: Calling For An Alternative Paradigm, James Levin
Journal of Dispute Resolution
Today, 225 years after the Constitution was drafted, we can look back and see how the protection of individual property through our patent system has helped our country grow. In 2012 alone, there were more than 576,763 U.S. patents applications filed and 276,788 patents issued. These numbers don't include the tens of thousands of patents that were bought, sold, and licensed in the private market each year. Not surprisingly, an ever-increasing number of patents are challenged through litigation. In 2012, almost 5000 patent infringement cases were filed. Litigation expenses can easily cost each party in a dispute millions of dollars, …
Developing A Framework For Arbitrating Standards-Essential Patent Disputes, Jorge L. Contreras, David L. Newman
Developing A Framework For Arbitrating Standards-Essential Patent Disputes, Jorge L. Contreras, David L. Newman
Journal of Dispute Resolution
This article lays the groundwork for the development of such procedures and identifies several key areas requiring further study and deliberation. Particular attention is paid to fundamental questions such as whether SEP arbitration should be mandated by SDOs, which conflicts should be arbitrated, whether arbitral decisions should be confidential, and what form arbitration proceedings should take. While, at this early stage, these difficult questions cannot be answered definitively, this article offers a framework for further discussion that the authors hope will be useful for policy makers, industry participants, and commentators considering these important issues.
Intersection Of Patent Infringement And Antitrust Liability In Abbreviated New Drug Application Litigation, The, Kevin E. Noonan
Intersection Of Patent Infringement And Antitrust Liability In Abbreviated New Drug Application Litigation, The, Kevin E. Noonan
Journal of Dispute Resolution
A battle has been raging, over the past ten years, regarding the competing interests of patent protection and antitrust prohibitions in the specialized area of law concerned with patented drugs regulated by the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA").' The contestants are the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") and parties to Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) litigation, which are a branded drug company and a generic challenger.
Case Study In Patent Litigation Transparency, A, Bernard Chao, Derigan Silver
Case Study In Patent Litigation Transparency, A, Bernard Chao, Derigan Silver
Journal of Dispute Resolution
By focusing on a single high profile patent case, Monsanto v. DuPont, this article explores the problem of transparency in patent litigation from two perspectives. First, this article provides metrics for understanding the nature and quantity of documents that were filed under seal in the Monsanto case. Second, this article scrutinizes particular aspects of the case to provide a more nuanced understanding of what the public cannot see. Although primarily descriptive, this article critically analyzes the sealing of so many documents by questioning the level of judicial oversight applied in decisions to seal court filings. It then goes on to …
Patent Examiners And Litigation Outcomes, Shine Tu
Patent Examiners And Litigation Outcomes, Shine Tu
Law Faculty Scholarship
Conventional wisdom argues that unnecessary litigation of low quality patents hinders innovation, and that the PTO could play a role with its high grant rates. Accordingly, it is important to answer these questions: (1) which patent examiners are issuing litigated patents, (2) are examiners who are "rubber stamping" patents issuing litigated patents at a disproportionately higher rate, and (3) are examiners with less experience issuing more litigated patents? In sum, do patent examiners who issue litigated patents have common characteristics? Intuition would argue that those examiners who issue the most patents (approximately one patent every three business days) would exhibit …
Reinventing Copyright And Patent, Abraham Bell, Gideon Parchomovsky
Reinventing Copyright And Patent, Abraham Bell, Gideon Parchomovsky
All Faculty Scholarship
Intellectual property systems all over the world are modeled on the one-size-fits-all principle. However important or unimportant, inventions and original works of authorship receive the same scope of protection, for the same period, backed by the same variety of legal remedies. Metaphorically speaking, all intellectual property is equal under the law. This equality comes at a heavy price. The equality principle gives all creators access to the same remedies, even when those remedies create perverse incentives. Moreover, society overpays for innovation by inflicting on society more monopoly losses than are strictly necessary to incentivize production.
In this Article, we propose …
Machine Learning And Law, Harry Surden
Machine Learning And Law, Harry Surden
Publications
This Article explores the application of machine learning techniques within the practice of law. Broadly speaking “machine learning” refers to computer algorithms that have the ability to “learn” or improve in performance over time on some task. In general, machine learning algorithms are designed to detect patterns in data and then apply these patterns going forward to new data in order to automate particular tasks. Outside of law, machine learning techniques have been successfully applied to automate tasks that were once thought to necessitate human intelligence — for example language translation, fraud-detection, driving automobiles, facial recognition, and data-mining. If performing …
Lost Classics Of Intellectual Property Law, Michael J. Madison
Lost Classics Of Intellectual Property Law, Michael J. Madison
Articles
Santayana wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” American legal scholarship often suffers from a related sin of omission: failing to acknowledge its intellectual debts. This short piece attempts to cure one possible source of the problem, in one discipline: inadequate information about what’s worth reading among older writing. I list “lost classics” of American scholarship in intellectual property law. These are not truly “lost,” and what counts as “classic” is often in the eye of the beholder (or reader). But these works may usefully be found again, and intellectual property law scholarship would be …
Against Settlement Of (Some) Patent Cases, Megan M. La Belle
Against Settlement Of (Some) Patent Cases, Megan M. La Belle
Scholarly Articles
For decades now, there has been a pronounced trend away from adjudication and toward settlement in civil litigation. This settlement phenomenon has spawned a vast critical literature beginning with Owen Fiss’s seminal work, Against Settlement. Fiss opposes settlement because it achieves peace rather than justice, and because settlements often are coerced due to power and resource imbalances between the parties. Other critics have questioned the role that courts play (or ought to play) in settlement proceedings, and have argued that the secondary effects of settlement – especially the lack of decisional law – are damaging to our judicial system. Still, …
Protecting American Innovators By Combating The Decline Of Patents Granted To Small Entities, W. Keith Robinson
Protecting American Innovators By Combating The Decline Of Patents Granted To Small Entities, W. Keith Robinson
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
The new patent laws and recent economic trends indicate that there is a difficult time ahead for small entities. American entrepreneurs and small businesses have created several of the major technological innovations in the past forty years. However, statistics indicate that patents granted to small entities have declined. In the wake of this trend, the U.S. Patent system has undergone significant changes. Currently, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) is in the process of implementing the policies and procedures outlined in its five-year strategic plan. Further, the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (“AIA”), the largest patent reform law since …
The Natural Complexity Of Patent Eligibility, Jacob S. Sherkow
The Natural Complexity Of Patent Eligibility, Jacob S. Sherkow
Articles & Chapters
It has long been assumed that the doctrine of patent eligibility’s prohibition of patents on “laws of nature,” “natural phenomena,” and “products of nature” rests on legalistic interpretations of those terms. But there is good reason to doubt this assumption. Since the doctrine’s inception, the Supreme Court has yet to provide any framework, formula, or factors explaining these “natural” terms. Rather, the Court has increasingly fixated on a list of scientific tropes, such as gravity, the heat of the Sun, and extracted metals, that it believes are true examples of “natural laws,” “phenomena,” and “products.”
An actual examination of scientific …
Intellectual Property Experimentalism By Way Of Competition Law, Tim Wu
Intellectual Property Experimentalism By Way Of Competition Law, Tim Wu
Faculty Scholarship
Competition law and Intellectual Property have divergent intellectual cultures – the former more pragmatic and experimentalist; the latter influenced by natural law and vested rights. The US Supreme Court decision in Federal Trade Commission v. Actavis is an intellectual victory for the former approach, one that suggests that antitrust law can and should be used to introduce greater scrutiny of the specific consequences of intellectual property grants.
Creating Around Copyright, Joseph P. Fishman
Creating Around Copyright, Joseph P. Fishman
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
It is generally understood that the copyright system constrains downstream creators by limiting their ability to use protected works in follow-on expression. Those who view the promotion of creativity as copyright’s mission usually consider this constraint to be a necessary evil at best and an unnecessary one at worst. This conventional wisdom rests on the seemingly intuitive premise that more creative choice will deliver more creativity. Yet that premise is belied by both the history of the arts and contemporary psychological research on the creative process. In fact, creativity flourishes best not under complete freedom, but rather under a moderate …
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
Discretionary Injunctive Relief For Patent Infringement: Partial Remuneration After Ebay And Its Implications For The Developing World, Richard Li-Dar Wang
Discretionary Injunctive Relief For Patent Infringement: Partial Remuneration After Ebay And Its Implications For The Developing World, Richard Li-Dar Wang
Richard Li-dar Wang
Will The “Nexus” Requirement Of Apple V. Samsung Preclude Injunctive Relief In The Majority Of Patent Cases?: Echoes Of The Entire Market Value Rule, Daniel Harris Brean