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(Up)grading Innovation: The Simple Step that Would Repair the US Patent System

22 December 2023

Roy Baharad

Gideon Parchomovsky

Artificial Intelligence Systems as Inventors?

The question of whether artificial intelligence (AI) can be deemed an inventor under patent law has been litigated world-wide. Previously, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia,...

AI as an Inventor: What We Can Learn from the Australian DABUS Case

Let me begin with a disclaimer. I am no expert in Australian law. However, it seems to me that the Australian Federal Court (FCA) has made a series of missteps...

30 September 2021

Eva Janečková

Reconceptualising patentee rights by the HCA: Australian contract law to the rescue

For years, the extent of patent rights of a patentee after sale of a patented product has been the subject of much judicial debate. This is especially so as the...

21 December 2020

Samar Ashour

Ensuring Global Access to Covid-19 Treatments

Public health emergencies and drug inaccessibility have always been major problems for developing countries, never developed countries. Indeed, for years, developed countries have been in the privileged position where they...

23 June 2020

Katarina Foss-Solbrekk

Modernizing German Patent Law: Toward an explicit obligation for proportionality control of injunctions?

Just over ten years after the last amendment to the German Patent Act, the German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection submitted a discussion draft at the...

12 June 2020

Luc Desaunettes-Barbero

Do German Judges Compete for Litigation by Offering Plaintiff-Friendly Procedures?

The most important function of judges is to decide cases brought to them by litigants. By contrast, they are not commonly seen as participants in a market for litigation, competing...

Is there a role for patents in the financing of new innovative firms?

At first glance the answer to the question posed in the title seems obvious, since such firms have few assets other than their ideas and inventions. Therefore, granting property rights...

26 July 2018

Bronwyn H. Hall

Labor Force Demographics and Corporate Innovation

Firms rely heavily on the labor markets from which they draw their employees. In our paper, we consider a fundamental aspect of labor markets, namely, their demographics, and...

17 May 2018

Ambrus Kecskés

Phuong-Anh Nguyen

Do Board Interlocks Increase Innovation? Evidence from a Corporate Governance Reform in India

Directors often sit on the boards of different companies at the same time. These interlocking boards are a common feature of the corporate landscape around the world. When directors serve...

(Up)grading Innovation: The Simple Step that Would Repair the US Patent System

Artificial Intelligence Systems as Inventors?

AI as an Inventor: What We Can Learn from the Australian DABUS Case

Reconceptualising patentee rights by the HCA: Australian contract law to the rescue

Ensuring Global Access to Covid-19 Treatments

Modernizing German Patent Law: Toward an explicit obligation for proportionality control of injunctions?

Do German Judges Compete for Litigation by Offering Plaintiff-Friendly Procedures?

Is there a role for patents in the financing of new innovative firms?

Labor Force Demographics and Corporate Innovation

Do Board Interlocks Increase Innovation? Evidence from a Corporate Governance Reform in India

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