In the past, I’ve written about how above-market returns enabled by abusing the patent system can discourage investment (and thus patenting) in contraceptives. In this case, above-market returns gained through [...]
When people think “regulatory capture” they normally think of some interest group pushing for legislation or regulations that benefit them at the expense of either the public or a rival. [...]
News and Commentary In a summary of his forthcoming law review article, Sam Howard discusses the issues with Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) patent licensing terms for standard essential patents. [...]
News and Commentary The Ninth Circuit has ruled that the elements of the biography of Tommy DeVito, one of the members of the band The Four Seasons, which were allegedly [...]
Rent Check It's unlikely the USPTO will grant a patent to a non-human inventor, and that's likely for the best. News and Commentary In a guest post on PatentlyO, [...]
The future is now, and once-hypothetical questions about the ability of artificial intelligence to produce a patentable invention are no longer so. Back in April, computer scientist Stephen Thaler’s creation, [...]
The “documentary” Plandemic and press conferences from “America’s Frontline Doctors,” to give two recent examples of COVID-19 misinformation, are unambiguously bad for the United States and the world. But they [...]
News and Commentary Kendrick Lamar is being sued by Terrance Hayes for the former's infringement Hayes' song "Loyalty" in a song of the same name. After initially prevailing in court [...]
We show how characterizing optimal patent policy for the pharmaceutical industry only requires information about generic producers' responses to changes in the effective duration and scope of new drug patents. [...]
Rent Check Moderna's failure to disclose the degree to which the government supported its vaccine is a scandal, but the silver lining to this incident is that it provides a [...]