Patents

The Changing Global Landscape Requires Flexibility and Creativity

Kenneth R Adamo

David M Maiorana

Susan M Gerber

The US patent system is one component in the exploitation and enforcement of intellectual property rights. The US cannot be viewed in isolation from the rest of world, however. When it comes to intellectual property in today’s global economy, more and more US patentees seek and obtain foreign counterpart patents to protect their ideas. The effectiveness of both foreign and domestic patent systems, therefore, can have a great impact on the value and enforcement of US patents.

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Different Patent Systems, Similar Controversies

Trevor Cook

Patent litigation rarely makes it to the highest courts anywhere in the world, and the US Supreme Court is no exception. However, for the first time in a generation the Court is taking a real interest in patent matters. Some matters are still the subjects of petitions for certiorari requesting that the Court hear the case, with the Court having already granted certiorari in some, while in others it has requested a brief from the US Government, signalling its interest in the subject matter. Most such cases raise or touch on issues that are already, or are likely to become, matters of controversy in Europe, which makes it interesting to review them from such a perspective.

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