Investing in legal advice – What determines the costs of enforcing intellectual property rights?

dc.contributor.author	Juranek, Steffen
dc.date.accessioned	2015-09-16T06:08:13Z
dc.date.available	2015-09-16T06:08:13Z
dc.date.issued	2015-08-28
dc.identifier.issn	1500-4066
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11250/300078
dc.description.abstract	This paper studies the determinants of investment in legal advice by plaintiffs in patent litigation. A hand-collected sample of US patent litigation cases is used to identify the empirical factors that determine the number of legal counsels employed by the plaintiffs. It turns out that more valuable patents lead to a higher investment in legal advice. Large firms, and plaintiffs with large patent portfolios employ more counsels, whereas individual litigants employ fewer. Software patents are related to a lower investment by the plaintiffs. These findings help not only to understand the cost drivers of litigation but have also important implications for the discussions on software patents, and the role of the litigant status for litigation success.	nb_NO
dc.language.iso	eng	nb_NO
dc.publisher	FOR	nb_NO
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Discussion paper;20/15
dc.subject	litigation	nb_NO
dc.subject	patents	nb_NO
dc.subject	litigation costs	nb_NO
dc.subject	software patents	nb_NO
dc.subject	litigation status	nb_NO
dc.title	Investing in legal advice – What determines the costs of enforcing intellectual property rights?	nb_NO
dc.type	Working paper	nb_NO