patent case filings from the U.S. district courts and detailed data from the" U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. We construct … reference" to theoretical models of litigation and settlement and discuss what they suggest about the effect" of patent …

patent case filings from the U.S. district courts and detailed data from the U.S. Patents and Trademark Office. A series of … to theoretical models of litigation and settlement and the effects of patent litigation on the incentive to invest in …

Patent infringement litigation has not only increased dramatically in frequency over the past few decades, but also has … understanding of the nature, causes, and consequences of patent litigation during the past two decades, many interesting questions … remain inadequately addressed. The nuances of and trends in patent litigation in different technology fields and industries …

Professor Colleen Chien recently developed an innovative and important model that relies on a patent's "after …-acquired" characteristics to predict the chances that the patent will be involved in litigation. This comment critiques Professor Chien's model … definition of data regarding the patent owner, further categorization of reexamination data, and research into the timing of …

The patent system - and information about the patent system - is becoming more available and more digitalized. One area … of interest involves using newly available information to predict patent litigation - to identify patents that will in … several fundamental problems with predicting patent litigation. It may therefore be a useful source to anyone who is …

European Union (ECJ) has found that the EU centralized patent litigation system recently proposed by the Council of the …-awaited EU patent litigation scheme (as envisaged in the Draft Agreement on the European and Community Patents Court). This blow …

In recent years, juries in some patent infringement suits have awarded prevailing patentees "reasonable royalty … various practices relating to the calculation of patent damages. Other voices, not surprisingly, have either defended the … debates are fundamental differences of opinion concerning the risks of so-called "patent holdup" resulting from the discovery …

Patent lawsuits are disruptive, unpredictable, and costly. The inability to anticipate patent litigation makes it … ward off litigation. This article confronts this systemic problem, by examining the factors that lead a particular patent … to be litigated – only around 1% of patents ever is. It relates the eventual litigation of a patent to earlier events in …

This paper describes a data set built to analyze patent litigation in the United States during 1929-2006. The data … issue. We collect numerous patent-specific variables and litigation-specific variables for these patents. The data also …