Two patent disputes settled

Patent Litigation with Endogenous Disputes

Report: Patterns in Media Coverage of Patent Disputes

The four patent cases covered most extensively during 2016 involved either Apple or Samsung, a clear indication that most media coverage of patent infringement cases was focused on the mobile smartphone sector. To be more specific, the news coverage of patent infringement stories during 2016 was dominated by Samsung Electronics Co. v. Apple, the $399 million design patent case between Apple and...

Patent Thickets and the Market for Innovation: Evidence from Settlement of Patent Disputes

We study how fragmentation of patent rights (‘patent thickets’) and the formation of the Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affected the duration of patent disputes, and thus the speed of technology diffusion through licensing. We develop a model of patent litigation which predicts faster settlement agreements when patent rights are fragmented and when there is less uncertainty abou...

How Are Patent Cases Resolved? An Empirical Examination of the Adjudication and Settlement of Patent Disputes

Settled equilibria

When people recurrently interact in familiar settings, social conventions may develop so that people tend to disregard alternatives outside the conventional norm. For rational players to usually restrict attention to a block of conventional strategies, no player should prefer to deviate from the block when others are likely to act rationally and conventionally inside it. We explore concepts tha...