Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Subject "patents"

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    • Foresight Bias in Patent Law 
      Seymore, Sean B. (Notre Dame Law Review, 2015)
      Much of patent reform has focused on efforts to make it harder to obtain and enforce low-quality patents. The most straightforward way to achieve this goal is to raise the substantive standards of patentability. What is ...
    • Investor-State Dispute Settlement 
      Gervais, Daniel J. (U.C. Irvine Law Review, 2018)
      The triangular interface between trade, intellectual property (IP) and human rights has yet to be fully formed, both doctrinally and normatively. Adding investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) to the mix increases the ...
    • The Patent Option 
      Gervais, Daniel J. (North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology, 2019)
      This Article delineates the proper scope of patentable subject matter and the two key exclusions namely scientific discoveries/laws of nature on the one hand, and mental steps/abstract ideas, on the other hand. The Article ...
    • Symposium: The Disclosure Function of the Patent System 
      Seymore, Sean B. (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2016)
      Achieving a robust disclosure from patent applicants is no easy task because it brings to the fore competing goals of the patent system. For example, the law must strike a balance between its interest in early disclosure ...