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Post-grant validity challenges at patent offices rely on the private initiative of third parties to correct mistakes … made by patent offices. We hypothesize that incentives to bring post-grant validity challenges are reduced when many firms … benefit from revocation of a patent and when firms are caught up in patent thickets. Using data on opposition against patents …
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We compare patent litigation cases across four European jurisdictions - Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the UK … information at the case, litigant, and patent level for patent cases filed at the major courts in the four jurisdictions. We find …
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I analyse how patent litigation outcome in Germany affects the performance of the disputing firms by interpreting … the functioning of the bifurcated German patent litigation system: The separation of litigation and invalidity decisions …, resulting in invalidity decisions taking much longer than decisions on infringement, provides patent holders with a window of …
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This paper looks at the decision to settle patent litigation in Germany from a new angle by focusing on detailed data …% of all patent litigation cases in Germany between 2000 and 2008 we estimate the likelihood of within-trial settlement. We …. Additionally, firm-specific stakes as measured by the relation of the involved parties to the disputed patent as well as firm …
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technology markets and increased rents for small inventors. Is this also true for today’s NPEs? Or are they “patent trolls” who … opportunistically litigate over software patents with unpredictable boundaries? Using stock market event studies around patent lawsuit …
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international licensing agreements developed with the French Patent office (INPI). As a main result, we highlight a stronger …
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unjust enrichment (UE), both damage rules that are used by courts in the calculation of damages when a patent has been … homogeneous good. One of the firms (patent holder) develops a cost reduction innovation (drastic or non-drastic) and got a patent …
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Why do legal disputes ever go to trial? Prior research emphasizes the role of mistakes, irrationalities, or asymmetric information because rational litigants with complete or symmetric information should choose pre-trial settlements over the costs and risks of trial. Using a dynamic...
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The present paper is the result of an interdisciplinary analysis in which we plan to investigate the difference between two concepts that may appear to be synonymous, but which, in reality, are distinct forms of checking the taxpayer: tax audit and antifraud controls. In addition, special...
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This paper assesses the impact of adopting a post-grant review institution in the US patent system by comparing the … “opposition careers” of European Patent Office (EPO) equivalents of litigated US patents to those of a control group of EPO … employing these different methods in our data analysis. We find that EPO equivalents of US litigated patent applications are …
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