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 …

.Concentrating patent litigation that involves parallel patents in a single national court would improve the enforcement of patent rights by … countries. However, any concentration of patent litigation is difficult because of the rule mandating that only courts in the … country where a patent was granted may adjudicate the validity of the patent. In the European Union, the 2006 judgment in GAT …

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 …