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Empirical Evidence on the Validity of Litigated Patents

John R. Allison
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management

Mark A. Lemley
Stanford Law School


July 1998


Abstract:     
We have studied all final patent validity decisions issued by the federal courts between 1989 and 1996 reported in United States Patents Quarterly. We test this dataset to determine a number of facts of interest to scholars and patent litigators, including the rate at which patents are held valid, the subject matter of the patents litigated, the rate at which judges and juries hold patents valid, the most common grounds for invalidity, how validity decisions fare on appeal, and numerous other hypotheses.

Note: This abstract has appeared in final form in the American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal, Vol. 26, P. 185, 1998.

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Date posted: August 28, 1998 ; Last revised: September 08, 2001

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Allison, John R. and Lemley, Mark A., Empirical Evidence on the Validity of Litigated Patents (July 1998). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=118149 or doi:10.2139/ssrn.118149


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Mark A. Lemley (Contact Author)
Stanford Law School ( email )
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305-8610
United States
John R. Allison
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management ( email )
Austin, TX 78712
United States
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