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An Economic Analysis Of Patent Law's Inequitable Conduct Doctrine, Thomas F. Cotter
An Economic Analysis Of Patent Law's Inequitable Conduct Doctrine, Thomas F. Cotter
Thomas F. Cotter
In recent years, patent law’s inequitable conduct doctrine has attracted considerable attention from judges, legislators, patent lawyers and commentators, culminating most recently in the Federal Circuit’s decision to reconsider en banc several aspects of the doctrine in Therasense, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson & Co. Building on the work of other scholars, this Article proposes an instrumental view of the doctrine as, ideally, a tool for inducing patent applicants to disclose the optimal quantity of information relating to the patentability of their inventions; it then presents a formal model of the applicant’s choices in deciding how much information to reveal. The …
An Economic Analysis Of Patent Law's Inequitable Conduct Doctrine, Thomas F. Cotter
An Economic Analysis Of Patent Law's Inequitable Conduct Doctrine, Thomas F. Cotter
Thomas F. Cotter
In recent years, patent law’s inequitable conduct doctrine has attracted considerable attention from judges, legislators, patent lawyers and commentators, culminating most recently in the Federal Circuit’s decision to reconsider en banc several aspects of the doctrine in Therasense, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson & Co. Building on the work of other scholars, this Article proposes an instrumental view of the doctrine as, ideally, a tool for inducing patent applicants to disclose the optimal quantity of information relating to the patentability of their inventions; it then presents a formal model of the applicant’s choices in deciding how much information to reveal. The …