Helmers, Christian; Love, Brian J.; McDonagh, Luke - 2014
This paper reports the findings of an empirical study of patent suits involving non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the U.K …. between 2000 and 2010. Overall, we find that NPEs are responsible for 11% of all patent suits filed in the U.K. during this … scarcity of NPE activity. For example, we find that NPEs litigating in the U.K. overwhelmingly assert high-tech patents – even …