After 10 years analysing the patent market, we have some very direct advice this year. If you are in-house counsel, to borrow a line from Samuel L Jackson: “Hold onto your butts.” These next few years are going to be tough. If you have not already signed up with a defensive aggregator such...

We test empirically whether purchased patents that are litigated fare better or worse than litigated patents that aren’t purchased. We identified every case filed in 2009 and 2010 that had a definitive winner and had information on the presence or absence of an assignment or other transfer....

Targeting the revenues of other companies according to the patent assertion risk they present effectively defines your patent development and external acquisition strategies. We show how to build a financial model to determine where you spend your patent development and buying dollars and then...