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Gender Diversity In The Patent Bar, Saurabh Vishnubhakat
Gender Diversity In The Patent Bar, Saurabh Vishnubhakat
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This article describes the state of gender diversity across technology and geography within the U.S. patent bar. The findings rely on a new gender-matched dataset, the first public dataset of its kind, not only of all attorneys and agents registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, but also of attorneys and agents on patents granted by the USPTO. To enable follow-on research, the article describes all data and methodology and offers suggestions for refinement. This study is timely in view of renewed interest about the participation of women in the U.S. innovation ecosystem, notably the provision …
What Patent Attorney Fee Awards Really Look Like, Saurabh Vishnubhakat
What Patent Attorney Fee Awards Really Look Like, Saurabh Vishnubhakat
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This essay gives an empirical account of attorney fee awards over the last decade of patent litigation. Given the current attention in legislative proposals and on the Supreme Court’s docket to more liberal fee shifting as a check on abusive patent litigation, a fuller descriptive understanding of the current regime is of utmost importance to forming sound patent litigation policy. Following a brief overview of judicial experience in patent cases and trends in patent case filing, this study presents analysis of over 200 attorney fee award orders during 2003-2013.
The study confirms the commonsense view that plaintiffs have tended to …