Universities involvement in patent litigation
An analysis of the characteristics of US litigated patents
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21441602 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Grazia Sveva Ascione (0000-0002-9719-5291, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, corresponding author), Laura Ciucci (0000-0002-6866-5522, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Claudio Detotto (0000-0003-3801-2202, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Valerio Sterzi (0000-0002-3828-8420, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 127 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 6855-6879 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Scientometrics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0138-9130 • E-ISSN: 1588-2861 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11192-022-04500-9 |
| OpenAlex | W4296961488 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 38 |
Some recent patent infringement litigations initiated by universities have resulted in multi-million dollar damages and have attracted public attention and stimulated research especially among law scholars. In this paper, we build a brand new database that include patents filed by universities at the United States and Trademark Office (USPTO), their characteristics and, eventually, the information about whether they have been used in infringements lawsuits by universities in the years 1990–2019. Our study is articulated in two parts. First, we show that, although it is still a quite rare phenomenon, patent litigation involving universities has been significantly growing in the last 2 decades. Second, we study the characteristics of university patents that have been litigated vis-à-vis non-litigated university patents. In this respect, we find that public universities and non-US universities are less inclined to litigate their patents compared to private and US universities. In addition, we also find that patent quality is an important determinant in the decision of university litigation. This result holds for patents in the Electrical Engineering sector, which is traditionally prone to opportunistic litigation, and no matter what type of university involved (public vs private, or US vs non-US)
Business · Damages · Intellectual property · Liberian dollar · Patent infringement · Patent law · Patent troll · Political science · Public domain · Quality (philosophy) · Trademark · Academic integrity and plagiarism · Finance · Intellectual Property and Patents · Law
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |