White-Collar Crime in the Age of Innovation: The Case of Patent Infringement

This paper scrutinizes the intersection of white-collar crime and patent infringement, a largely under examined aspect of corporate deviance. patents are exclusive rights granted to a patent holder. When these rights of the patent holder or the claims in the patent are violated by a third party, without the consent or license of the patent holder, such third party is said to have infringed the patent rights of patent holder. The study underscores the complex nature of patent infringement as a form of white-collar crime, elucidates its consequences on industry and society, and proposes measures to mitigate its occurrence.