Enforcement by patent trolls of poor quality patents has led to criticism of the patent office as well as the system itself. Patents on pharmaceuticals...

computer-implemented inventions. Policy debate on software patents has been active for years. The opponents to software patents have gained more visibility with fewer resources...

of patents and patent law is generally considered to have started with the Venetian Statute of 1474. There is some evidence that some form of patent rights...

types of patents. Particular types of patents for inventions include biological patents, business method patents, chemical patents and software patents. Although...

Criticism is the construction of a judgement about the negative or positive qualities of someone or something. Criticism can range from impromptu comments...

Of those, 6,242 were patent examiners (almost all of whom were assigned to examine utility patents; only 99 were assigned to examine design patents)...

software patent is a patent on a piece of software, such as a computer program, library, user interface, or algorithm. The validity of these patents can be...

ownership of patents more liquid, thereby creating incentives to innovate and patent. Patent Licensing Entities also argue that aggregating patents in the...

applicability of patents to substances and processes wholly or partially natural in origin is a subject of debate. Business method patent – includes patents on new...

Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. In general, film criticism can be divided into two categories: Academic criticism...

notice Copyright abolition Culture vs. Copyright Criticism of intellectual property Criticism of patents Creative Commons Copyfraud Copyleft Copyright alternatives...

A patent office is a governmental or intergovernmental organization which controls the issue of patents. In other words, "patent offices are government...

genre of arts criticism, literary criticism or literary studies is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is...

competent for adjudicating patent infringement of national patents, national parts of European patents and Eurasian patents when the infringement takes...

patent used in patent ambush. Submarine patents were criticized because they allowed inventors to delay the publication and issuance of their patents...

Art criticism is the discussion or evaluation of visual art. Art critics usually criticize art in the context of aesthetics or the theory of beauty. A...

possible for part of the unitary territory. The unitary patent may coexist with nationally enforceable patents ("classical" patents) in the non-participating...

psychedelic medicine company to be listed on the NASDAQ. It has faced criticism for patenting psychedelic drugs and even certain psilocybin mushroom species...

This is a list of notable techno-thriller novels, novel series, and collections of linked short stories. ‘Techno-thriller’ Novels and Recent American...

Trilateral Patent Offices, or simply the Trilateral Offices, are the European Patent Office (EPO), the Japan Patent Office (JPO) and the United States Patent and...

The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48), also known as the CDPA, is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that received royal assent...

infringement of patents. The rules and laws governing patent prosecution are often laid out in manuals released by the Patent Offices of various governments...

of corporate personhood and corporate welfare. The USPP has also made a priority to advocate for changes in the copyright laws and removal of patents...

Facebook Criticism of Apple Inc. Criticism of Google Criticism of Yahoo Criticism of Amazon Criticism of Spotify Criticism of Netflix Criticism of Dropbox...

suggests, that the patent owners identify in advance, which patents they intend to list in the Orange Book, and have these patents examined by USPTO's...

A patent holding company (PHC) exists to hold patents on behalf of one or more other companies but does not necessarily manufacture products or supply...

that ever-expansive monopolies in the form of copyright extensions, software patents, and business method patents harm the public interest. More recently...

a list of software patents, which contains notable patents and patent applications involving computer programs (also known as a software patent). Software...

simplifying of state bureaucracy through e-government, supporting small and medium-sized business, funding of local development, promotion of environmental...

This is a list of legal terms relating to patents and patent law. A patent is not a right to practice or use the invention claimed therein, but a territorial...