Patent-Infringement Injunctions' Scope

Anticompetitive Patent Injunctions

Integra v. Merck: Limiting the Scope of the 271(e)(1) Exception to Patent Infringement

Injunctions, Hold-Up, and Patent Royalties

This paper studies royalty negotiations between a patent holder and a downstream firm selling a product which is more valuable if it includes a feature covered by the patent. Royalties are negotiated in the shadow of patent litigation, which will determine whether or not the patent is valid and infringed. If the two firms negotiate after the downstream firm has already designed its product to i...

Social network analysis of patent infringement lawsuits

Article history: Received 29 December 2011 Received in revised form 30 September 2012 Accepted 2 October 2012 Available online 8 November 2012 Using patent lawsuit information, we develop a method to identify companies with a significant legal influence on the technologies used in their industry. We construct a patent-infringement lawsuits graph, using the data from intellectual property lawsui...

Transnational electronic systems and patent infringement

the Federal Circuit (the US court of appeals for all patent cases) took a look at whether operators of transna-tional electronic systems with some components in the US and some in other countries can be held liable for patent infringement. The NTP case involved the defendant, Research In Motion's (RIM's) BlackBerry electronic mail system, which has customers in the US and important parts of the...