Patent policy is typically thought to be the product of the Patent and Trademark Office, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and, in some instances, the Supreme Court. This simple topography, however, understates the extent to which outsiders can shape the patent regime. Indeed, a variety of administrative actors influence patent policy through the exercise of their regulatory authority and administrative power. This Article offers a novel description of the ways in which nonpatent agencies intervene into patent policy. In particular, it examines agency responses to conflicts between patent and other regulatory aims, uncovering a relative preference for complacency ("inaction") and resort to outside help ("indirect action") over r...
The post-grant review proceedings set up at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent and Trial ...
The Supreme Court’s implicit deference to the Office of the Solicitor General in patent cases is wel...
Debates about patent policy often focus on the potential for the threat of a court-imposed remedy fo...
This Article presents a new model for examining the role of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Cir...
Recent patent litigation reform efforts have focused on every branch of government — Congress, the P...
Recent patent litigation reform efforts have focused on every branch of government — Congress, the P...
This article describes the processes involving the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office\u27s (PTO\u27s) ...
Despite the promise of efficiency through the use of expert agency adjudication in U.S. patent law, ...
Patent Office power has grown immensely in this decade, and the agency is wielding its power in pred...
This article examines the permanence of the U.S. Supreme Court\u27s retreat to the peripheries of ...
The progression toward reevaluating patent validity in the administrative, rather than judicial, set...
ii This work examines the scope of non-practicing entity behavior and whether the debate on remedies...
Whereas Congress has increasingly turned to administrative agencies to regulate complex technical ar...
The rise of administrative patent validity review since the America Invents Act has rested on an eno...
One of the most divisive and debated issues in patent law in recent years has been the Patent Office...
The post-grant review proceedings set up at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent and Trial ...
The Supreme Court’s implicit deference to the Office of the Solicitor General in patent cases is wel...
Debates about patent policy often focus on the potential for the threat of a court-imposed remedy fo...
This Article presents a new model for examining the role of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Cir...
Recent patent litigation reform efforts have focused on every branch of government — Congress, the P...
Recent patent litigation reform efforts have focused on every branch of government — Congress, the P...
This article describes the processes involving the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office\u27s (PTO\u27s) ...
Despite the promise of efficiency through the use of expert agency adjudication in U.S. patent law, ...
Patent Office power has grown immensely in this decade, and the agency is wielding its power in pred...
This article examines the permanence of the U.S. Supreme Court\u27s retreat to the peripheries of ...
The progression toward reevaluating patent validity in the administrative, rather than judicial, set...
ii This work examines the scope of non-practicing entity behavior and whether the debate on remedies...
Whereas Congress has increasingly turned to administrative agencies to regulate complex technical ar...
The rise of administrative patent validity review since the America Invents Act has rested on an eno...
One of the most divisive and debated issues in patent law in recent years has been the Patent Office...
The post-grant review proceedings set up at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent and Trial ...
The Supreme Court’s implicit deference to the Office of the Solicitor General in patent cases is wel...
Debates about patent policy often focus on the potential for the threat of a court-imposed remedy fo...