Deceptive Conducts before the Patent Office : Challenges for Patent Law and Competition Law

• Superior document: Munich Intellectual Property Law Center – MIPLC
• Author: Hoss, Eugenio
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Munich Intellectual Property Law Center – MIPLC
• Physical Description: 1 electronic resource (335 p.)

In an increasingly harmonized global patent landscape, few issues still distinguish the US patent system as much as its strict–and often criticized–duty of candor and its inequitable conduct doctrine. The EPO and most other countries around the world impose less burdensome disclosure duties upon pat...