
Patent Title Insurance
Editors
Walter G. Park
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Description
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
Recommended Citation
Duan, Charles, "Patent Title Insurance" (2024). Contributions to Books. 348.
https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/facsch_bk_contributions/348