Rush to Judgment? Trial Length and Outcomes in Patent Cases

Lemley, Mark; Kendall, Jamie; Martin, Clint

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2217690

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Rush to Judgment? Trial Length and Outcomes in Patent Cases

Google Inc

August 17, 2012

Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 2217690

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We conduct a comprehensive study of all patent trials over the past eleven years. We find that juries are more favorable to patentees than judges, that (to our surprise) the length of a trial has no effect on its outcome, and that there are surprisingly modest differences between patentee win rates in favored jurisdictions like Delaware and the Eastern District of Texas.

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Date posted: February 14, 2013

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Lemley, Mark A., Kendall, Jamie and Martin, Clint, Rush to Judgment? Trial Length and Outcomes in Patent Cases (August 17, 2012). Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 2217690. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2217690 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2217690

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Mark A. Lemley (Contact Author) Stanford Law School ( email ) 559 Nathan Abbott Way Stanford, CA 94305-8610 United States
Jamie Kendall Stanford Law School ( email ) Stanford, CA
Clint Martin Google Inc ( email ) 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Second Floor Mountain View, CA 94043 United States

Abstract

Rush to Judgment? Trial Length and Outcomes in Patent Cases

Mark A. Lemley

Jamie Kendall

Clint Martin

Date posted: February 14, 2013

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Contact Information

Mark A. Lemley (Contact Author)

Jamie Kendall

Clint Martin