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Challenging the Strong Presumption of Patent Validity
Patent Law Blog (Patently-O): Challenging the Strong Presumption of Patent Validity One of the next major legal challenges to patent rights will be against the strong presumption of validity associated with the patent grant. Section 282 of the patent act says only that a patent and its claims “shall be presumed valid.” Under longstanding doctrine, […]
April 2009 / 1 min.
Microsoft Gets Slammed in Yet Another Patent Suit
Image via Wikipedia Microsoft Gets Slammed in Yet Another Patent Suit - Law Blog - WSJ: In what’s being billed as the fifth-largest patent award in historyaEUR”and the second largest this yearaEUR”a federal jury in Rhode Island on Wednesday ordered Microsoft to pay $388 million to Uniloc USA Inc. and Uniloc Singapore Private Ltd. for […]
April 2009 / 2 min.
Indian Biogenerics on an Upswing
’ Image via Wikipedia Patent Baristas >> Indian Biogenerics on an Upswing: Indias pharmaceutical industry caters to about 30% of the world’s generic requirements. Despite its tremendous volume, it has been facing difficult times recently, with the WHO stance on counterfeit drugs, as well as seizure of Indian generic shipments in the EU. There is […]
April 2009 / 2 min.
SSRN Papers Dealing with IP, Development and Innovation
Image via Wikipedia The Patent Lottery: Exploiting Behavioral Economics for the Common Good by Dennis Crouch Lotteries are immensely popular. Players are willing to give the organizer a large monetary cut of every ticket purchase in return for a chance at a jackpot. In some ways, our current patent system operates as a lottery as […]
March 2009 / 3 min.
Strict International Patent Laws Hurt Developing Countries
Strict International Patent Laws Hurt Developing Countries, an article in YaleGlobal from 2002 by Amy Kapczynski: In 1998, 39 pharmaceutical companies filed a lawsuit against South Africa. They hoped to stop the government from producing the generic drugs that would have made treatment affordable for the country’s AIDS victims. A public outcry ensued, and critics […]
March 2009 / 2 min.
Do Patents Stimulate R&D Investment and Promote Growth?
Patent Law Blog (Patently-O): Do Patents Stimulate R&D Investment and Promote Growth?: As background material, this post reviews the sizable body of empirical research analyzing the impact of patents on R&D investment and economic growth. Three future posts will present new empirical research featured in our book Patent Failure. The theme across all four posts […]
March 2009 / 2 min.
Against Intellectual Monopoly
Against Intellectual Monopoly, a book by by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine, two economists who have proposed abolishing copyrights and patents: It is common to argue that intellectual property in the form of copyright and patent is necessary for the innovation and creation of ideas and inventions such as machines, drugs, computer software, books, […]
March 2009 / 2 min.
Economists: Abolish Copyright & Patents to Save the Economy
Economists: Abolish Copyright & Patents to Save the Economy: Two economists from Washington University have looked at current copyright and patent laws and concluded that they’re not good. The pair see current intellectual property laws as similar to “medieval trade monopolies” which were bad for the economy as a whole, and are calling for the […]
March 2009 / 1 min.
Beyond Economic Analysis of Intellectual Property: The Need For Social and Cultural Theory
The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog: Beyond Economic Analysis of Intellectual Property: The Need For Social and Cultural Theory (Madhavi Sunder): Over the course of the last century intellectual property has grown exponentially, but its march into all corners of our lives and to the most destitute corners of the world has paradoxically […]
March 2009 / 3 min.
That Was the Copyright Year That Was (2008)
Image via Wikipedia That Was the Copyright Year That Was by Bruce E. Boyden of Marquette University Law School: I recently compiled a list of the biggest developments in copyright law in 2008, based on a not very systematic survey. I thought it would be worth sharing here, as I know that I often wish […]
March 2009 / 1 min.