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Patents are probabilistic property rights: there exists inherent uncertainty regarding a patent’s validity and scope (Lemley and Shapiro, 2005). Although patents are granted by patent offices only after substantive examination, there is no guarantee that a granted patent is in fact valid. This uncertainty about patent validity has important effects on the functioning of patent systems and legal patent enforcement in particular.
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Gäßler, F. (2016). Invalid but Infringed? An Analysis of Germany’s Bifurcated Patent Litigation System. In: Enforcing and Trading Patents. Innovation und Entrepreneurship. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-13375-7_3
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