Ellison's Oracle earlier today settled its two year old suit with Google over accusations of copying Oracle's Java APIs for no damages, after a court found that it would be entitled only to statutory damages for Google's non patent-infringing use of small amounts of Oracle code.
It can stifle competition and infringe on the rights of non-patent holders.
non-patent claims". Eng'g & Inspection Servs., LLC v. IntPar, LLC, 2013 U.S. Dist.
Then they claim that the law would increase the cost of medical research by non-patent-holders.
Patent-holding inventors report being inspired more frequently and intensely than non-patent holders, and the higher the frequency of inspiration, the higher the number of patents held.
More generally, the findings suggest that the non-patent intellectual property environment in which individuals and organizations operate can influence innovation outcomes.
Therefore, this paper presents the results of a questionnaire-based study into the patent and non-patent technology out-licensing activities of 154 European firms across industries.
Thus, antitrust law should not judge producer surplus in the patent setting the same as it is in the non-patent setting.
References to the non-patent literature are informative about the value of pharmaceutical and chemical patents, but not in other technical fields.
The methodology that we apply to investigate the links between science and technology is based on an analysis of scientific citations in patent documents (non-patent citation (NPC)).
