Design around

Design around

In the field of patents, the phrase "to design around" means to invent an alternative to a patented invention that does not infringe the patent’s claims. The phrase can also refer to the invention itself.

Design arounds are considered to be one of the benefits of patent law. By providing monopoly rights to inventors in exchange for disclosing how to make and use their inventions, others are given both the information and incentive to invent competitive alternatives that design around the original patent.[1] In the field of vaccines, for example, design arounds are considered fairly easy. It is often possible to use the original patent as a guide for developing an alternative that does not infringe the original patent.[2]

Design arounds can be a defense against patent trolls. The amount of license fee that a patent troll can demand is limited by the alternative of the cost of designing around the troll's patent(s).[3]

In order to defend against design arounds, inventors often develop a large portfolio of interlocking patents, sometimes called a patent thicket. Thus a competitor will have to design around a large number of patents.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ Strandburg, Katherine (2004). "What Does the Public Get?: Experimental Use and the Patent Bargain". Wisconsin Law Review 2004: 6. http://works.bepress.com/katherine_strandburg/4. 
  2. ^ Kremer, Michael (2001). "Creating Markets for New Vaccines –Part II: Design Issues". Innovation Policy and the Economy. I. Cambridge: MIT Press. p. 93. ISBN 0262600412. http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Nc33ZS5nRa0C&oi=fnd&pg=PA119&ots=N1uqRKKYJd&sig=lJPt-TOjqdtnPvbXYN2JzQNeoCs#PPA91,M1. 
  3. ^ Golden, John M. (2007). "'Patent Trolls' and Patent Remedies". Texas Law Review 85: 2111–2161 [p. 2130]. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=991698. 
  4. ^ Rubinfeld, Daniel L.; Maness, Robert (2005). "The Strategic Use of Patents: Implications for Antitrust". In Leveque, Francois; Shelanski, Howard. Antitrust, Patents and Copyright: EU and US Perspectives. Northampton: Edward Elgar. pp. 85–102. ISBN 1845426037. http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/rubinfeldd/Profile/publications/Strategic_Use_of_Patents.pdf. 



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