Add to ORKGThis Essay is the first analysis of a recent entrant on the patent landscape: the Invalidity Assertion Entity (IAE). IAEs engage in rent-seeking by demanding payment from patent holders in exchange for not attempting to invalidate their patents through administrative action before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The response to IAEs has been uniformly negative. Reflexive proposals have been raised in Congress (unsurprisingly) to terminate the IAE business model. In contrast to the common response to IAEs, this Essay discusses how profit-driven IAEs may generate socially beneficial externalities and why legislating to end the IAE business model is imprudent
Professors Hovenkamp, Janis, and Lemley have attempted to clarify one of the most vexing issues faci...
The Article proceeds as follows. Part I reviews the basics of patent claiming, the traditional view ...
Despite the promise of efficiency through the use of expert agency adjudication in U.S. patent law, ...
This Essay is the first analysis of a recent entrant on the patent landscape: the Invalidity Asserti...
Most patent scholars agree that the Patent and Trademark Office grants too many invalid patents and ...
In Part I, we explain several theories on why PAEs are beneficial or detrimental to the patent syste...
We analyze how new information about the validity of a patent impacts the settlement of patent infri...
This Essay is an empirical study of the evidence the Patent Trial and Appeal Board relies upon when ...
The America Invents Act (AIA) was widely hailed as a remedy to the excessive number of patents that ...
We study the causal impact of patent invalidation on subsequent innovation and exit by patent holder...
While the existence of patent assertion entities is not new, in recent years they have proliferated,...
We show that examiner-driven variation in patent rights leads to quantitatively large impacts on sev...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2017-06This dissertation examines imperfections in how int...
This thesis analyses the legal consequences of subsequent patent invalidation on infringement action...
Since the 1980s, the United States Patent and Trademark Office has amended or revoked patents throug...
Professors Hovenkamp, Janis, and Lemley have attempted to clarify one of the most vexing issues faci...
The Article proceeds as follows. Part I reviews the basics of patent claiming, the traditional view ...
Despite the promise of efficiency through the use of expert agency adjudication in U.S. patent law, ...
This Essay is the first analysis of a recent entrant on the patent landscape: the Invalidity Asserti...
Most patent scholars agree that the Patent and Trademark Office grants too many invalid patents and ...
In Part I, we explain several theories on why PAEs are beneficial or detrimental to the patent syste...
We analyze how new information about the validity of a patent impacts the settlement of patent infri...
This Essay is an empirical study of the evidence the Patent Trial and Appeal Board relies upon when ...
The America Invents Act (AIA) was widely hailed as a remedy to the excessive number of patents that ...
We study the causal impact of patent invalidation on subsequent innovation and exit by patent holder...
While the existence of patent assertion entities is not new, in recent years they have proliferated,...
We show that examiner-driven variation in patent rights leads to quantitatively large impacts on sev...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2017-06This dissertation examines imperfections in how int...
This thesis analyses the legal consequences of subsequent patent invalidation on infringement action...
Since the 1980s, the United States Patent and Trademark Office has amended or revoked patents throug...
Professors Hovenkamp, Janis, and Lemley have attempted to clarify one of the most vexing issues faci...
The Article proceeds as follows. Part I reviews the basics of patent claiming, the traditional view ...
Despite the promise of efficiency through the use of expert agency adjudication in U.S. patent law, ...