acquires an interest in a patent (which the employee does automatically upon invention under U.S. law), that patent may become …The intersection between patent law and family law principles has the potential to create an irreconcilable conflict in … the area of patent ownership. These two legal worlds operate by virtue of different statutory provisions of automatic …

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 how to calculate and ROI …

This paper develops a theory of patent portfolios in which firms accumulate an enormous amount of related patents in … infringe on other firms ́patent portfolios. We investigate how litigation incentives for the holders of patent portfolios … impact the incentives to introduce new products and draw welfare implications. We also consider a patent portfolio …