For various reasons, businesses and rights holders like to bring patent-related proceedings to the UK court. In addition to the normal situation of litigating UK patents, increasingly the UK court is willing to rule on infringement of foreign patents in the context of contractual disputes, given...

Patent infringement litigation has not only increased dramatically in frequency over the past few decades, but also has also seen striking growth in both stakes and cost. Although a relatively rich literature has added much to our understanding of the nature, causes, and consequences of patent...

"Indian Patent Act 1970" is the governing law related to patent right In India. The law starts from 1911 after the Indian Patents and Designs Act, 1911 enacted in India. The present Patents Act, 1970 and it came into force in the year 1972 after amending and consolidating the existing law...

This paper describes a data set built to analyze patent litigation in the United States during 1929-2006. The data include all patents in published district court and appellate court decisions in which validity and/or infringement are at issue. We collect numerous patent-specific variables and...

Even though the US Federal Circuit has been facing domestic criticism about its exclusive jurisdiction on patent appeal cases, there is a global trend of establishing specialized patent/IP court with the same goal as the US Congress once had, to increase the uniformity, efficiency and quality of...