With the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) proceedings are constitutional, Anne Layne Farrar considers whether PTAB proceedings have lived up to their policy promise. In this article published in Landslide, Anne Layne-Farrar analyzes five years of inter partes review (IPR) trials and suggests the goal of an alternative to district court litigation has fallen short.
How compulsory licensing shaped innovation in the Xerox case
In a new article published in the Journal of Industrial Economics, CRA’s Robin Mamrak shows that opening up an incumbent’s patent portfolio can promote...