A model of patent infringement is developed to analyze the relationship between litigation and aspects of the legal … environment such as the probability that the patent is found valid, the size of legal fees and their allocation across agents … this game has a fundamental impact on the value of patent protection to a patentee. This model is then linked to a patent …

consequences, showing how an incumbent may create a patent portfolio in order to control market entry and to collude. The incumbent … fixes the level of patent protection and the threat of denunciation reduces the entrant’s expected profits; moreover, if the … entrant deviates from collusion, the incumbent can strengthen punishment suing the competitor for patent infringement …

deter entry with the threat of patent litigation. We show that a positive cross-licensing royalty rate, which would …

The use of "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 years … instruments include standard measures of patent strength and a measure of settlement legality based on a split between several …

consequences, showing how an incumbent may create a patent portfolio in order to control market entry and to collude. The incumbent … fixes the level of patent protection and the threat of denunciation reduces the entrant's expected profits; moreover, if the … entrant deviates from collusion, the incumbent can strengthen punishment suing the competitor for patent infringement …