Patent litigation poses a variety of challenges to the envisioned efficiency of trial. Such cases involve a high number …-stakes for the parties involved. These parties (and in particular patent holders) are also encouraged by empirical trends in … patent litigation to both seek jury trials and appeal after a verdict in a lower court. Generally, patent holders experience …

Involvement in patent litigation creates substantial direct and indirect costs for firms. We present evidence that … pairs of firms involved in patent litigation are more evenly-matched in financial profiles than pairs of firms not involved … in litigation. We take advantage of a novel, hand-collected data set that combines data on observed instances of patent …

Recent studies estimate that the economic impact of U.S. patent litigation may be as large as $80 billion per year and … that the overall rate of U.S. patent litigation has been growing rapidly over the past twenty years. And yet, the … relationship of the macroeconomy to patent litigation rates has never been studied in any rigorous fashion. This lacuna is notable …

This short piece focuses on the growing role that that end users are playing in our patent system. It highlights that … become involved in the patent dispute relatively late in the life of the patent. The paper proposes inclusion of end user … end users in patent litigation …

defending against patent litigation by rivals. War chests of cash can make firms more formidable targets, reducing rivals …

We formally analyze the effects of legal presumptions in patent litigation. We set up a novel contest model to study … the patent is valid; a presumption that the patent is invalid; no presumption regarding validity. Our findings reveal that … there is high uncertainty about the patent's objective merit …