This thesis examines procedural litigation problems arising when two parties have a conflict involving the same patent or design, with an impact in several jurisdictions, taking as a case study the litigation procedures of Apple and Samsung. The thesis asks whether this type of dispute is best resolved through a single procedure. If so, what would be the circumstances surrounding such procedure in terms of jurisdiction, applicable law, preliminary injunctions and enforcement of the decisions? It first identifies the problems related to the type of dispute when taking parallel actions in different National Courts. Then it examines the European litigation procedure of patents and designs and assesses how this system addresses the inconsistency of the national litigation regime. It argues that in relation to patents, the Unitary Patent Court (UPC) has the potential to solve some of the problems identified in the thesis and that a similar unitary system should be extended to disputes involving designs. However, in the absence of an effective international court system outside the EU for global disputes, it suggests that a single arbitration procedure is still needed. The thesis identifies the main legal barriers to an arbitration procedure as being: bringing the parties to arbitrate, the arbitrability of the dispute, the identification of applicable law and the need for preliminary injunctions. It is concluded that: the agreement to arbitrate should be facilitated by the authorities so that it is appealing to the parties; the arbitrability can be resolved by limiting the effect of the judgment to the parties; a flexible approach can be adopted to applicable law through the application by the arbitrator of ‘choice of law’ rules; and, even when a preliminary injunction is needed, the parties may recur to arbitration. The thesis concludes that the primary benefit of a single arbitration procedure would be the creation of a single award enforceable at international level.

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Patent trolls have changed the innovation and patent policy landscape. This thesis is an empirical event study that focuses on two landmark cases of patent troll litigation, RIM v. NTP and eBay v. Mercexchange, to determine whether pro-troll litigation outcomes significantly impact the market values of the firms in the high-tech industries they target. I find that the Supreme Court ruling in eBay v. Mercexchange did seem to significantly impact a proportion of firms in the market. The decisive factors in distinguishing affected vs. unaffected firms include a firm's R&D to Sales ratio, market value, and NAICS code specification.

Efter många års kompromissande kommer ett Europeiskt patent med enhetlig verkan (EU-patent) att införas. Tillsammans med skapandet av en enhetlig domstol, kallad Unified Patent Court (UPC), kommer EU-patentet säkerställa en enhetlig patenträttslig tillämpning i alla deltagande länder. I denna uppsats görs först en genomgång av vad EU-patent respektive patent enligt The European Patent Convention (EPC-patent) innebär och hur tvister hanteras. Sedan förs en diskussion kring skillnaderna och deras påverkan på ett fiktivt företag inom bilsäkerhetsbranschen.EU-patentet kommer materiellt inte särskilja sig i någon större utsträckning från det nuvarande EPC-patentet. De stora skillnaderna kommer istället att vara den förenklade ansökningsprocessen, minskade kostnader och det geografiska skyddsomfånget. Vid beviljande av EU-patent får patentet verkan i samtliga deltagande länder. Systemet kommer emellertid medföra en stor osäkerhet till en början eftersom det är nytt och därmed saknas praxis. Dessutom finns en viss rädsla för så kallade patenttroll som med EU-patent kommer få möjlighet att tillskansa sig patent för nästan hela EU.UPC förväntas innebära minskade kostnader i samband med rättsprocesser. Dessutom är målet att förutsägbarheten och följdriktigheten ska vara lika hög oavsett i vilket av de deltagande länderna rättsprocessen sker. Än en gång är dock bristen på praxis ett problem eftersom EU-ländernas praxis inom patentfrågor ser olika ut och det kan inte förutsägas hur domstolen kommer förhålla sig till dessa skillnader.För det fiktiva företaget är förenklingen och de minskade kostnaderna med EU-patentet lockande. De osäkerheter som finns innan EU-patentet och UPC har hunnit utvecklats ordentligt och praxis byggts upp innebär emellertid en risk. De ekonomiska fördelarna kommer förmodligen inte att kunna väga upp risken under de första åren. Därför kommer företaget troligen att avvakta för att se att EU-patentet och framförallt UPC erbjuder ett tillfredsställande skydd.

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Humboldt-Univ., Diss.--Berlin, 2001.

Diss. Jur. Bern.

The basic principle of patent law is to provide the innovator a negative right to exclude others from making, using, exercising, offering to dispose of and marketing the invention within a limited statutory period. Two aspects of patent theory have polarised research since the Schumpetian era; namely, the balance between this individual right and the societal loss and the level of patent protection that incentivises innovation. Only in recent times has there been research activity on the problem of the shortened patent life and optimal patent design. This empirical study sought to determine the optimal patent protection; thus patent breadth and patent length that create patent value for touch-screen handsets without increasing societal loss. In previous literature mathematical modeling was used as a methodology to determine the optimal patent breadth and patent length. In this study, a quantitative method was used with empirical evidence collected from all patent attorneys practicing in South Africa. The study provides empirical evidence that patent breadth and patent length should vary based on product sectors as a „one-size-fits-all‟ patent protection approach is outdated in product sectors characterised by rapid technological innovation. From the study results it was concluded that long-lived narrow patents are optimal for touch-screen handsets. Lastly, that there are more underlying factors that contribute to patent value in touch-screen handsets that should be investigated further. Copyright / Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2011. / Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) / unrestricted

Software protection by patents is an emerging field and thus is not completely understood by software developers, especially software developers in a university setting. University inventors have to balance their publication productivity and the desire of their university to license inventions that could be profitable. This balance stems from the one-year bar on filing a U.S. patent application after public disclosure such as publications of the invention. The research provides evidence supporting the hypothesis that a university inventor can improve the protection of his or her software patent by applying certain information about patent prosecution practices and the relevant prior art. Software inventors need to be concerned about fulfilling the requirements of patent laws. Some of the methods for fulfilling these requirements include using diagrams in patent applications such as functional block diagrams, flowchart diagrams, and state diagrams and ensuring that the patent application is understandable by non-technical people. The knowledge of prior art ensures that the inventor is not "reinventing the wheel," not infringing on a patent, and understands the current state of the art. The knowledge of patent laws, diagrams, readability, and prior art enables a software inventor to take control of the protection of his or her invention to ensure that the application of this information leads to improvements during the application process.