covered. The first is legal liability for harm. Here we discuss liability rules as incentives to reduce risk, issues of risk …-bearing and insurance, and the costs of the liability system. Second, we consider property law, where we address the nature and …

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 …

Patent infringement damages for lost profits are analyzed by providing an economic analysis of bilateral and … multilateral competition between a patent holder and infringer(s) both with and without technology substitutes. The entire market … reviewed. Lost profits analysis for patent damages is compared to trade secret and antitrust remedy approaches. Finally, the …

The “monopoly” authorized by the Patent Act refers to the exclusionary power of individual patents. That is not the … same thing as the acquisition of individual patent rights into portfolios that dominate a market, something that the Patent … Act never justifies and that the antitrust laws rightfully prohibit.Most patent assignments are procompetitive and serve …

This article expands the analysis about patent valuations in patent transaction and licensing markets, by including … patent damage awards and by exploring the dynamics, as well as the driving forces behind the dynamics, of the valuations … across the markets of patent transaction, licensing, and litigation. Valuation economics posits that patent price may comove …