Using comprehensive patent lawsuit data from 2000 to 2014, we find that a stock portfolio consisting of firms involved … in patent lawsuits provides significantly positive stock returns (between 0.56% to 1.02% per month) in the following year … constraints, unknown systematic risk, and investors' underreaction to potential benefits associated with patent litigation …

The paradigmatic defendant in a patent lawsuit is a vertically integrated manufacturer. But much economic activity is …'s infringement. Often patent owners have the option of suing some or all of the members of a supply chain who contribute to the … design, creation and marketing of a new technology.Businesses increasingly contemplate the risk of patent infringement when …

The book Patent Remedies and Complex Products: Toward a Global Consensus presents a laudable effort to examine the … underpinnings of patent remedies and how these remedies should be applied in our world of ever more advanced multi … perspective of U.S. patent and antitrust litigation. More specifically, this Comment focuses on several critical aspects of the …

We propose a model that integrates a series of events regarding patent rights based on real option framework. After the … incumbent has acquired a patent, it can be infringed by the challenger, and the conflict between them can be resolved via … the real world and why most of the lawsuits over patent rights cease before the court's judgment is made. It also …

Page limits on expert reports can easily be proposed by parties and enforced in courts, efficiently streamlining patent …

elements, the way of dealing with the problems such as relative weight, and the differences in construction between the patent … technical scope (a claim) of a patent invention and the burden of proof in a patent infringement litigation. In such a …

This paper looks at the decision to settle patent litigation in Germany from a new angle by focusing on detailed data … all patent litigation cases in Germany between 2000 and 2008 we estimate the likelihood of within-trial settlement. We …. Additionally, firm-specific stakes as measured by the relation of the involved parties to the disputed patent as well as firm …

Forum shopping is widespread in patent litigation because there are clear differences in outcomes among the various … transfer is denied? The dataset consists of patent infringement cases filed from 2006-2008 where a transfer motion was also … patent litigants to give a richer context to the debate over forum shopping in general and serve as a basis for further …

We analyze the impact of the probabilistic nature of patents on the functioning of Germany's bifurcated patent … litigation system where infringement and validity of a patent are decided independently by different courts. We show that … bifurcation creates situations in which a patent is held infringed that is subsequently invalidated. Our conservative estimates …

The use of so-called “pay-for-delay” settlements in patent litigation – in which a branded manufacturer and generic … entrant settle a Paragraph IV patent challenge and agree to forestall entry – has come under considerable scrutiny in recent … settlements we estimate the model using instrumental variables. Our instruments include standard measures of patent strength and a …