Patent Law Weblog
Category: Patent Research
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By Donald Zuhn — A paper released by the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution asserts that by relying on a technology transfer model based on patent licensing, only a few universities have been able to generate significant revenues, and in fact, most university technology transfer offices do not generate enough income to…
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By Donald Zuhn — Earlier this year, we released our annual list of top biotech/pharma stories (see "Top Stories of 2009: #4 to #1"). At the top of our list, we placed the biotech/pharma industry's attempts to recover from the Great Recession. Back in February of 2009, we noted that almost a third of…
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By James DeGiulio — Earlier this month, we reported on a study published last year in the The Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, which suggested a commons systems can generate significantly greater amounts of innovation, productivity, and social utility than currently predominating patent systems that combine both patent and open source protection for…
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By James DeGiulio — A recent study published in The Columbia Science and Technology Law Review challenges the traditional view that patents foster innovation, suggesting instead that patents may harm creation of new technology, economic activity, and societal wealth ("Patents and the Regress of Useful Arts"). The study, conducted by Dr. Andrew W. Torrance…
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