ABSTRACT'Ihe traditional justification for intellectual property (IP) rights has been utilitarian.
We grant exclusive rights because we think the world will be a better place as a result. But …

We offer description and analysis of the 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey—the first
comprehensive survey of patenting and entrepreneurship in the United States …

Carbon, ecological, and water footprints (CF, EF, and WF) are accounting tools that can be
used to understand the connection between consumption activities and environmental …

Patent trolls-patent owners whose primary business is collecting money from others that
allegedly infringe their patents-are on everyone's mind. Complaints that trolls are perverting …

Over the past decade, the American patent system has experienced an explosion of patent
litigation initiated by parties called" Non-practicing Entities"(NPEs). 1 The term" non …

NPEs are firms that do not produce goods. Rather, they acquire patents in order to license
them to others. In principle, NPEs can perform the socially valuable function of facilitating …

Among the many reasons high-tech companies get patents, one of the most important is to
build a patent arsenal. To guard against the risk of patent litigation, companies acquire …

Forum shopping is problematic because it may lead to forum selling. For diverse motives,
including prestige, local benefits, or re-election, some judges want to hear more cases …

Commentators have observed for years that patents do less good and cause more harm in
the software industry than in other industries such as pharmaceuticals. 1 Software patents …

Patent-assertion entities, or" patent trolls," use the threat of injunction to hold up product-
producing companies in patent suits. The Supreme Court's 2006 decision in eBay Inc. v …