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Intellectual Property

Apr. 14, 2015

Justices reversing course on patent system skepticism?

Over the last decade, the U.S. Supreme Court has not hid its belief that the patent system is out of balance and needs to be restrained. But that belief may be subsiding. By Edward R. Reines


By Edward R. Reines


Over the last decade, the U.S. Supreme Court has not hid its belief that the patent system is out of balance and needs to be restrained. But like every big swing of a pendulum, the force slows, and then pauses, before it ultimately reverses direction. There is evidence that the Supreme Court's skepticism of the patent system may be subsiding.


During the entire decade after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit was cr...

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