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...

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)...

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

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

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...

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

programs and the Patent Cooperation Treaty Software patents under national laws: Software patents under United States patent law Software patents under United...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

Criticism of capitalism typically ranges from expressing disagreement with particular aspects or outcomes of capitalism to rejecting the principles of...

register patents as protection against litigation, rather than as an intent to litigate. Thus mere existence of a patent, without a claim of infringement...

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...

publication or 70 years after the author's death to 14 years, and the expiry of patents that do not result in significant progress after four years, as opposed...

The Pirate Party of Israel or Piratim (Hebrew: הַפִּירָאטִים) is a political party in Israel founded in 2012 by past members of the Holocaust Survivors...

of the US economy, the strong pro-patentee legal regime and over 200 years of case law make US patents more valuable and more litigated than patents of...

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...