Last summer, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an unusual sua sponte
order. An appeal had come from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, a tribunal within the …

Recently the LED sector has been going through a period of rapid technological change and
intensive competition. In rapidly growing technological systems, incumbent firms use a …

" The availability of technologies not available at trial cannot mean that every criminal
conviction, or even every criminal conviction involving biological evidence, is suddenly in …

Intellectual Property (IP) is often a company's single most valuable asset. And yet IP is hard
to value, widely misunderstood and frequently under-exploited. IP accounts for an estimated …

Compulsory licensing is an important institutional innovation that improves the knowledge
governance and can help fostering the pace of generation of technological knowledge and …

Many commentators claim the fundamental problem with software patents is their low
quality, which facilitates abuse. 1 Patent trolls, which are generally described as entities that …

This paper investigates the impact of media coverage on a nonpracticing entity (NPE) patent
litigation concerning the defendant firms. Using a sample of high-tech and patent-intensive …

Everyday Intellectual Property,'while I was on sabbatical. The word sabbatical, like the word
Sabbath, 2 conjures a sense of rest and a break from the day-to-day rhythms of commerce …

Over 100 years ago, Oliver Wendell Holmes famously stated that"[t] he prophecies of what
the courts will do in fact, and nothing more pretentious, are what I mean by the …