Predicting litigation likelihood and time to litigation for patents

Understand

Patent lawsuits are costly and time-consuming.

• An ability to forecast a patent litigation and time to litigation allows companies to better allocate budget and time in managing their patent portfolios.
• We develop predictive models for estimating the likelihood of litigation for patents and the expected time to litigation based on both textual and non-textual features.
• Our work focuses on improving the state-of-the-art by relying on a different set of features and employing more sophisticated algorithms with more realistic data.