Federal Judge Seeks Patent Cases

Patent Cases Docket Classification

We contribute to the Intellectual Property Litigation Clearinghouse (IPLC) project by providing an extensive experimental evaluation of two classification techniques, namely classification trees and support vector machines. We focus on dockets belonging to the “Claim Construction order” class and we build classifiers that achieve up to 87% precision with 88% recall. This provides a 79% improvem...

Sealed Cases in Federal Courts

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Foreigners in U.S. Patent Litigation: An Empirical Study of Patent Cases Filed in Nine U.S. Federal District Courts in 2004, 2009, and 2012

One of the greatest challenges facing patent holders is the enforcement of their rights against foreign (non-US) 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 its seat, or holds its assets. Instead, patent holders must file lawsuits i...

Estimating Gender Disparities in Federal Criminal Cases

Should Juries Hear Complex Patent Cases?

A debate has arisen within the legal community over the existence and constitutionality of a so-called “complexity exception” to the Seventh Amendment. This exception would give a judge the discretion to deny a jury trial in a civil case if he or she feels that the issue is too complex for a jury to decide properly. This iBrief discusses the constitutionality of the complexity exception and the...