There has long been a dearth of quantifiable, verifiable data in the world of NPE patent litigation. Most quantitative analysis of NPE activity has essentially been educated guessing. One of the more valiant efforts to tease something illuminating from the limited public record was undertaken by Michael Risch of the Villanova University School of Law….
Read full postNPE litigation has been a growing cost burden for tech-based operating companies over the past decade. Just how large that burden actually is, however, has been a huge question mark. Judgments are a matter of public record, but fewer than 5% of NPE cases ever go that far, so the vast majority of NPE-related costs…
Read full postAs we noted in our last post, patents have become the topic du jour for business commentators and leading media outlets. The opinions continue to flow, and one of the notable entries came from Vivek Wadhwa, a fellow at Stanford’s Rock Center for Corporate Governance, who published a recent piece on theWashington Post Op/Ed page (Where…
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