Patent Boundaries

The Social, Textual Lives of Patents: The Phillips Screw and Driver

“…Patents also provide textual evidence for legal scholarship. Examples of this include investigations into the geographical extent of patents (Winston 2015), patent litigation reform (Gugliuzza 2015), citing prior art (Richardson 2015), patent quality (Cass 2015), experimenting with patent policy (Ouellette 2015), and the relationship between patents and antitrust (Hovenkamp 2015). 9…”

Grounding the Patent Wars

“…Thus, in a U.S. module, the applicable patent law is American, while in a Russian or European Union module, their laws apply. 2 In deep space the precedent of international waters holds, with common law and international agreements establishing that the patent law of a mission's controlling operators are in force.…”