Through protecting his brand and rights of publicity, Trump has accumulated more experience with IP than any other president. He owns more than 100 trademarks and has not shied from enforcing them. He’s also expressed concern about theft of trade secrets by China, referencing a study by the ITC that claims putting a stop to […]
Of every 100 findings of direct infringement by U.S. courts, only about 10 are findings of direct infringement under the doctrine of equivalents. This number sheds light on the importance of DOE claim scope relative to literal claim scope. Some applicants may spend a lot of time and energy on the DOE and the nuances […]
Some view Inter Partes Review (IPR) as a patent killing field. Yet, the statistics published by the PTO seem to suggest that the patent kill rate in IPR is modest, and other commentators suggest that it’s roughly comparable to the kill rate in district court. The truth is closer to the killing field. Whether this […]
Every other year the American Intellectual Property Law Association conducts an economic survey, which provides the best average estimates of the costs of patent infringement litigation in federal court, among other things. Here we summarize some portions of the 2015 Report of the Economic Survey, the most recent available. For the first time, the AIPLA […]
The arts of prosecuting, litigating, monetizing and teaching patents can progress only so far without benefit of empirical, quantitative data. To that end, we’re gathering up the most useful patent statistics available today. Most of them are little known, because they come from a wide variety of scattered sources where they are typically presented in […]