. We develop a model of patent litigation which predicts faster settlement agreements when patent rights are fragmented and … predicts that the impact of fragmentation on settlement duration should be smaller under CAFC. We confirm these predictions …-2000. Finally, we analyze how fragmentation affects total settlement delay, taking into account both reduction in duration per …

I examine the determinants of conflict and settlement by embedding probabilistic contests in a bargaining framework …. Different costly enforcement efforts (e.g., arming, litigation expenditures) induce different disagreement points and Pareto … frontiers. After examining the incentives for settlement, I demonstrate how different division rules and bargaining norms have …

equilibrium settlements and the incentives to go to trial. We find that split-award statutes simultaneously lower settlement …

' beliefs about fairness and lower out-of-court settlement amounts. …

research aims to look at the question of whether the threat of costly litigation can provide an incentive to firms to engage in … CSR. We built a model where a firm and an interested party engage in litigation. The firm operates in a market and earns … increases the probability of a case settling out of court. We also find some ambiguity regarding the effect of CSR on settlement …

lawfulness is ascertained in a final court ruling at trial-is an important litigation instrument in many areas of the law … settlement decisions. We consider these implications when there is uncertainty about both the plaintiff’s damages as well as the … settlement. A precursor to this analysis is the study of the strategic role of preliminary injunctions as a means to signal the …

We consider a model of a single defendant and N plaintiffs where the total cost of litigation is fixed on the part of …-it-or-leave-it settlement offers, we can show that they will actually be exploited by one of their fellow plaintiffs rather than by the … defendant. Moreover, if litigation is a public good as is the case in shareholder derivative suits, parties may fail to reach a …

normalized to one. The defendant knows whether she is liable or not, but the plaintiff does not. We ask what are the settlement … procedure and fee-shifting rule (which, together, we call a mechanism) that minimize the rate of litigation subject to … maintaining deterrence. Two main results are presented. The ?rst is a characterization of an upper bound on the rate of settlement …

Gambling for the Upper Hand - Settlement Negotiations in the Lab …We exploit a controlled non-framed laboratory experiment to study settlement negoti- ations and the plaintiff …'s decision to raise a lawsuit in case of an impasse. We find that greater variance in court outcomes increases the litigation …