In Graham v. John Deere Co., the Supreme Court explained that patent law's
nonobviousness doctrine is meant to restrict the award of patents to only" those inventions …

Ever since Alexander Bickel published The Least Dangerous Branch in 1962, American
constitutional theorists have agonized over the supposedly" countermajoritarian" character …

The prospect of an injunction-induced blackout of handheld e-mail, 1 a jury verdict awarding
over a billion dollars in damages 2-these are two of the specters that have haunted current …

The appropriate valuation of information security (InfoSec) intellectual property (IP) is of
interest to both business scholars and investors. This topic is important because InfoSec IP …

Although software patents have been growing steadily since 1996, when the restrictions on
the patentability of software were eliminated, their value and impacts on the firm's profits …

Patent law is in flux, with recent disputes and changes in doctrine fueled by increased
attention from the Supreme Court and en banc activity by the Federal Circuit. The natural …

The valuation paradigms represent a central issue for any business manager seeking
external finance. This book represents an innovative guide to both practitioners, students …

Some inventors abandon their patent applications without ever receiving a patent. Although
patent scholars view such abandoned applications as essentially worthless, we question …

Patents have become financial assets. They are valued like securities, 1 traded like stocks, 2
and modeled as options.'Our discourse about patents increasingly draws from finance. Firms …

Many recent patent law discussions concern patent holders that are not producing the
patented invention. 1 Instead, these patentees choose to only assert their patents. These …