Ten Things to Do About Patent Holdup of ... - Boston …

150 Boston College Law Review [Vol. 48:149 I. The Problem Why is holdup a problem today? The patent system was designed for an era in which a patent covered a machine, and a machine was a fairly basic thing.1 As Rob Merges puts it, one hundred years ago “if you put technology in a bag and shook it, it would make some noise.”2 ................
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