Patent Title Insurance

Patent Title Insurance

Editors

Walter G. Park

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This chapter explores the possibility of offering a form of insurance to patent-holding inventors, protecting them against the risk that their patents are invalidated in administrative proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Although this kind of “patent title insurance” does not appear to exist to date, it would potentially have tremendous public benefits, helping to resolve heated policy debates over both low patent quality and those administrative proceedings. Yet the potentially high cost of underwriting not only explains why this insurance is not readily available on the market today, but also sheds light on fundamental difficulties with the patent system as a whole.

ISBN

9781800880610

DOI

https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800880627

Publication Date

9-12-2024

Book Title

Handbook of Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights

First Page

163

Last Page

175

Publisher

Edward Elgar Publishing

Keywords

patents, insurance, PTAB, patent validity, patent examination, intellectual property, IP law, intellectual property law

Disciplines

Insurance Law | Intellectual Property Law | Law

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