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Patent Assertion Entity Activity AN
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Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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Litigation Outcomes................
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Executive Summary and Recommendatio
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Table A.1: Categories of PAEs in FT
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generated royalties of less than $3
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most frequently by Study PAEs, or (
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litigations tended to settle early;
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in a timely manner would help allev
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In December 2015, however, an amend
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Chapter 1: Introduction and Backgro
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corresponded to various types of NP
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PAE’s enforcement of that patent
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In one of the earliest studies, Jam
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defendants that will arise in the l
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entrepreneurship and related invest
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and efficient marketplace for paten
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The FTC and the DOJ supported USPTO
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the brief observed that the share o
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Greater transparency of patent owne
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only egregious misconduct, as Justi
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In September 2013, the Commission b
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were intended to generate a sample
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The FTC’s study has two parts. Th
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Litigation PAEs: Litigation PAEs ty
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licenses. There was little overlap
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guaranteed revenue and zero risk. T
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agreements exclusively. These agree
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Larger Litigation PAEs also used th
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determine whether it has already li
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epresented as unique docket numbers
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Prior to initiating the study, the
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FTC examined the frequency with whi
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Study PAEs sent demands to relative
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from related PAEs may help them neg
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Electronic Product Manufacturing”
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arely generated license agreements
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In addition, four Responding PAEs a
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Litigation PAEs and Portfolio PAEs
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Table 3.1 provides the distribution
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Figure 3.5a: Technology Category of
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PAE cases and 44% of Litigation PAE
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Figure 3.6: Frequency Distribution
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Figure 3.7: Proportion of Study PAE
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portfolios of patents, which typica
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manner and extent to which Respondi
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as quickly as possible. For Portfol
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Study PAEs Generated Approximately
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likely seeks to avoid the possibili
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factor of 10. This analysis include
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Figure 3.10a could be the result of
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Figure 3.11: Number of Licenses Inv
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granted licenses to firms operating
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Turning to specific assertion behav
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The preceding considerations have l
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Chapter 4 first describes how Wirel
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A Small Number of Targets Received
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These percentages suggest that both
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worldwide wireless chipset sales du
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with 75% of their settlements occur
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Wireless Respondents’ Licensing A
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Table 4.2: Percentage of Wireless P
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license with that entity, whereas P
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Most Wireless Licensees Operated in
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Conclusion The FTC’s goal in stud
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Patent assignments were frequently
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Figure 5.1: Size of Patent Holdings
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Classification. 309 As of the time
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while USPTO economists estimate tha
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categories were Other Electrical &
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More Than 75% of Study Patents Incl
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Affiliates and Holding Entities, he
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Figure 5.5: Age Distribution of Stu
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eceive more citations than other ca
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1.5 and the median was 0.6, meaning
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average burden for each of the appr
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enefits), and 320 research assistan
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PART B - COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
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stratum. The FTC will sum the two s
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Freedom and RPX use public sources
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The FTC will send one set of inform
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will have one entry for each acquis
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are two reasons why it is important
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