The settlement includes the licensing of
a small number of patents by each company to the other, but no broad cross-licensing of patents or other compensation.
A small number of patent applications are «divisional» applications of pending patent applications.
Not exact matches
That kind
of rapid growth can overcome a
number of smaller deficiencies: inexperienced management, competition, weak
patent positions, etc..
If you spend a moment looking at the percentage
of patented technologies that actually make the leap to a substantial market, the
number is astonishingly
small: usually measured in tenths
of a percent.
He finds that, historically, only a very
small number of women have obtained
patents.
Other advances in law have come with search engines such as Lexmachina, which searches through a
small number of databases to predict the outcome
of patent cases.
Indeed, while district courts invalidated more than double the
number of patents under § 101 in the second half
of 2014 than in the entire previous year, those decisions represent a very
small number of cases relative to the volume
of litigation in the system.
So cases involving design
patents constitute a
small percentage
of patent litigation compared to the
number of cases involving only utility
patents (historically, just under 10 % and declining to less than 5 % in 2012 and 2013).
Large
numbers of Eastern District
of Texas filings are being created by a relatively
small number of non-practicing entities, also known as «
patent trolls.»