Smartphones, televisions, and IoT devices are all examples of “complex products.” While certainly complex technologically, they are also complex from a patent perspective. The smartphone in your pocket potentially embodies tens or even hundreds of thousands of individual patents issued by patent offices around the globe.
Innovative companies buy and sell complex products in sophisticated global markets, but the myriad laws that value patents and provide remedies for infringement can be difficult to navigate. To examine this difficulty, the Center for Law, Science and Innovation, enabled by a gift from Intel, organized the International Patent Remedies for Complex Products (INPRECOMP) project.
The project’s ambitious goal is to engage scholars worldwide to build new consensus on patent remedy issues related to complex products.
INPRECOMP’s 20 leading intellectual property scholars hail from 11 countries in North America, Europe, and Asia:
Santa Clara University School of Law
University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
University of Minnesota Law School
Tilburg Law School, Tilburg University
University of Texas Austin School of Law
Renmin University of China School of Law
Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London
Seoul National University School of Law
Cornell Law School, Cornell University
Santa Clara University School of Law
Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London
National Law University, Delhi
University of Liege School of Law
University of Zurich
Washington and Lee University School of Law
University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan
Nagoya University Graduate School of Law
Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University
University of Geneva
These scholars’ hard work has culminated in a forthcoming book – Patent Remedies for Complex Products: Toward a Global Consensus – which will be published by Cambridge University Press. Working-paper versions of each chapter of the book are now available on SSRN: