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- Title
Non-Practicing Entities & Patent Reform.
- Authors
Douglas, Nicholas
- Abstract
The patent system is designed to promote innovation and supply a blueprint for innovative minds to improve upon, but the behavior of some patent owners is contrary to these principles. Non-practicing entities obtain patent rights, and rather than produce the product claimed in the patent, they assert their exclusionary rights broadly and aggressively against businesses producing similar products in order to induce settlement or licensing payments. These assertions account for a significant percentage of infringement claims and threaten a potentially innocent business with expensive litigation. The actions of these entities have a substantial effect on the patent system and have been the motivation behind reform and recent Supreme Court decisions. Each of the three branches of government has significant influence over the patent system, and each has the potential to promote change to reduce the impact of non-practicing entities on the United States patent system and on the United States economy.
- Subjects
UNITED States; NONPRACTICING entities (Patent law); PATENT reform; INTELLECTUAL property reform; PATENT law; UNITED States. Patent &; Trademark Office
- Publication
Pace Law Review, 2018, Vol 38, Issue 2, p608
- ISSN
0272-2410
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.58948/2331-3528.1971