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Disguised Patent Policymaking, Saurabh Vishnubhakat Jan 2020

Disguised Patent Policymaking, Saurabh Vishnubhakat

Washington and Lee Law Review

Patent Office power has grown immensely in this decade, and the agency is wielding its power in predictably troubling ways. Like other agencies, it injects politics into its decisions while relying on technocratic justifications. It also reads grants of authority expansively to aggrandize its power, especially to the detriment of judicial checks on agency action. However, this story of Patent Office ascendancy differs from that of other agencies in two important respects. One is that the U.S. patent system still remains primarily a means for allocating property rights, not a comprehensive regime of industrial regulation. Thus, the Patent Office cannot …


Internet Tv: (Hopefully) Coming To A Computer Screen Near You, Nicholas Pellegrino Apr 2017

Internet Tv: (Hopefully) Coming To A Computer Screen Near You, Nicholas Pellegrino

Seton Hall Circuit Review

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