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Reconceiving The Patent Rocket Docket: An Empirical Study Of Infringement Litigation 1985-2010, Saurabh Vishnubhakat
Reconceiving The Patent Rocket Docket: An Empirical Study Of Infringement Litigation 1985-2010, Saurabh Vishnubhakat
Faculty Scholarship
This Article presents the first survival model for systematically identifying and comparing United States district courts as patent rocket dockets, and for examining related trends in patent litigation. The conventional wisdom of rocket docket status in a judicial district tends to rely on average case disposition times and the availability of court rules for patent cases, as well as anecdotal information about well-known jurists with experience in patent adjudication.
By comparison, this Article approaches rocket dockets through a quantitative investigation of recent historical trends in patent case filings as well as through market concentration analysis at the district court and …
Small Business Strategies Series: Patents & Trademarks, Robert Berry
Small Business Strategies Series: Patents & Trademarks, Robert Berry
Librarian Publications
A November 14 2011 presentation by Robert Berry, Research Librarian and Patent and Trademark Resource Center representative for the Sacred Heart University Library.
Trumbull Library System, Business Program: Patents & Business Intelligence, Amy Jansen, Robert Berry
Trumbull Library System, Business Program: Patents & Business Intelligence, Amy Jansen, Robert Berry
Librarian Publications
A November 10, 2011 presentation by Amy Jansen, Business Librarian at Sacred Heart University and Robert Berry, Research Librarian and Patent and Trademark Resource Center representative for the Sacred Heart University Library.
Joint Defense Or Research Joint Venture? Reassessing The Patent-Challenge-Bloc's Antitrust Status, Joseph S. Miller
Joint Defense Or Research Joint Venture? Reassessing The Patent-Challenge-Bloc's Antitrust Status, Joseph S. Miller
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A patent challenger who defeats a patent wins spoils that it must share with the world, including all its competitors. This forced sharing undercuts an alleged infringer's incentive to stay in the fight to the finish - especially if the patent owner offers an attractive settlement. Too many settlements, and too few definitive patent challenges, are the result. I have argued previously that a litigation-stage bounty would help correct this tilt against patent challenges, for it would provide cash prizes to successful patent challengers that they alone would enjoy. Even the best-designed bounty, however, would likely fail to encourage patent …