Conflict and Collaboration in Business Organization: A Preliminary Study

Macaulay’s (1963) “Non-contractual relations in business: a preliminary study” was ahead of its time. The article was published in a prominent place. The American Sociological Review (ASR) is one of the sociology’s two flagship journals. Still, its citations (in the ISI index) were but drips until the middle of the […]

This article reports the findings of an empirical analysis of the relative ages of patents litigated by practicing and non-practicing patentees. Studying all infringement claims brought to enforce a sample of recently expired patents, I find considerable variance. Product-producing companies predominately enforce their patents soon after issuance and complete their […]

Patent lawsuits are disruptive, unpredictable, and costly. The inability to anticipate patent litigation makes it practically uninsurable, exposes companies to late-stage suits, and drives companies to rapidly accumulate patents in order to ward off litigation. This article confronts this systemic problem, by examining the factors that lead a particular patent […]

Patentees overwhelmingly lose their cases, despite a seeming host of procedural advantages. The same is not true of other IP plaintiffs. Why? […]

This purpose of this essay is to provide an early analysis of some of the most substantial law and policy concerns raised by the very recent en banc decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the now famous Therasense v. Becton Dickinson case. The […]

While the literature examining university engagement in patenting and technology transfer is quite developed, commentators largely have overlooked university involvement in patent litigation. This article focuses on one aspect of that involvement—initiation of patent infringement litigation—by providing a quantitative and textual analysis of patent infringement actions initiated by universities from […]

Patent litigation is a complex system wherein patent law is refined through interactions among the judicial system’s constituent components—principally, the litigants, district courts, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit), Supreme Court, Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), and Congress’s patent laws. Typically, litigants pore over existing […]

We introduce the problem of risk analysis for Intellectual Property (IP) lawsuits. More specifically, we focus on estimating the risk for participating parties using solely prior factors, i.e., historical and concurrent behavior of the entities involved in the case. This work represents a first step towards building a comprehensive legal […]

This dissertation analyzes why some VC-funded high-tech firms do not generate harvesting events for investors through a lucrative sale, either to another company or on the stock exchange. In other words, I seek to understand two performance outcomes: failure and persistence. […]