I’m planning to soon post (either as web pages or as blog posts) new material from a lengthy Strategy section in the forthcoming Patent Litigation book. Some planned posts:
- Why litigate patent infringement? (Cost/benefit assessment for patent owner, and for potential defendant)
- Some reasonable bases for patent litigation
- Some bad reasons for patent litigation
- Non-litigation uses for patents
- Alternatives to patent litigation
- Alternatives (both IP and market-based) to patenting
- Patent valuation: a claims-based approach
- Settlement of patent litigation
- Patent licensing
- Pre-litigation patent enforcement
- Strategy & tactics within litigation, including defense
- Patent portfolios and pools: quantity & quality
- Non-practicing entities (NPEs), patent aggregation companies, and “trolls”
- Patent litigation finance (including the champerty/maintenance and barratry issues) and insurance
