Intellectual Property: Assessing Factors That Affect Patent Infringement Litigation Could Help Improve Patent Quality
By the U.S. Government Accountability Office
Expert Voices
Some history, economic analysis and independent perspective on patent law and patent policy:
Investing in America’s Future Through Innovation: How the Debate Over the Smart Phone Patent Wars (Re)Raises Issues at the Foundation of Long-Term Incentive Systems
By David Kappos,
Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, Former Director of the USPTO
The Rise and Fall of the First American Patent Thicket: The Sewing Machine War of the 1850s
By Adam Mossoff Professor of Law and Co-Director of Academic Programs and Senior Scholar of the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property
Essay: Analyzing the Role of Non-Practicing Entities in the Patent System
By David L. Schwartz Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Empirical Studies of Intellectual Property
The Impact of the Acquisition and Use of Patents on the Smartphone Industry
By the Center on Law and Information Policy at the Fordham University School of Law, on behalf of the World Intellectual Property Organization
Trolling for “Patent Trolls”
By Richard A. Epstein, Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at Stanford University and member of the Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force
The Myth of the “Patent Troll” Litigation Explosion
By Adam Mossoff
Professor of Law and Co-Director of Academic Programs and Senior Scholar of the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property
Policy Statement on Remedies for Standards-Essential Patents Subject to Voluntary F/RAND Commitments
By the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office