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 …

system of patent adjudication in the United States. There is, however, considerable support for the creation of a specialized … patent trial court based on the argument that we need to create specialized, judicial human capital at the trial level …. Proponents favoring this change base their reasoning on the two-part argument that, because of the complexity of patent cases and …

patent litigations are often inaccessible. This article takes a closer look at this phenomenon by examining a single case … on both agribusiness and patent law. The $1 billion award against DuPont will undoubtedly shape the future of the market … raises novel patent remedy issues. This article assesses how transparent this landmark case was from two perspectives …

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 …

When comparing patent litigation rates or their “rarity” across decades, one must take into account the proportion to … the actual scale of commercial activities that give rise to patent disputes. Such normalizing scales are preferably … Gross National Product (GDP) in real dollars. This paper marshals for the first time information on all patent litigation in …

random group of cases and patents in the same yearly proportions. All cases involving every patent was gathered, allowing the … life cycle of each asserted patent to be studied. The data includes litigation data, patent data, reexaminations, and other … relevant data. This paper considers outcomes and patent quality. A future paper will examine innovation and markets …

One of the greatest challenges facing patent holders is the enforcement of their rights against foreign (non …-U.S.) infringers. Jurisdictional rules can prevent patent holders from filing patent infringement suits where they have the greatest … likelihood of success in enforcement, such as where the infringer is located, has his seat, or holds his assets; instead, patent …

The traditional parties in patent litigation are technologically savvy competitors. Yet recently, patent owners have … begun hauling end users — including farmers, small cafés, and podcasters — into patent disputes. This Article shows that end … users, unlike competitors, cannot take proactive measures to protect their interests in defending against patent enforcement …

Patent Litigation is the 'King' of Litigation, it is generally perceived; but the situation is not so true with India …. Recently, the study of patent litigation has been receiving increasing attention. The literature has addressed both economic … were published relating to actual pattern and trends of patent litigation in U.S.A. and other countries. However, there is …