Bloomberg Law
Aug. 11, 2017, 12:22 PM UTC

Cost of Patent Infringement Litigation Falling Sharply

Bloomberg Law - Staff Reports

By Malathi Nayak, Bloomberg BNA

Patent litigation costs declined drastically from 2015 to 2017, as litigants controlled expenses and increasingly skipped courtrooms to challenge a patent’s validity at the Patent and Trademark Office, IP attorneys told Bloomberg BNA.

The median overall cost for a patent infringement case with $1 million to $10 million at stake declined 47 percent from 2015 to $1.7 million in 2017, according to the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s “2017 Report of the Economic Survey” obtained by Bloomberg BNA.

The annual survey gathers data such as annual incomes and billing rates of IP law practitioners. In ...

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