The Settlement of Patent Litigation
构建模型分析专利许可如何作为和解协议的一部分以避免专利有效性诉讼，专利持有者拥有专利有效性的私人信息并向潜在竞争对手提出和解要约，模型分析了和解与诉讼概率的影响。
In this article I develop a model to analyze patent licensing that is induced as part of a settlement agreement to avoid litigation of the issue of patent validity. The patentee possesses private information about patent validity and makes a take-it-or-leave-it settlement offer to a single potential rival. An essentially unique sequential equilibrium exists if out-of-equilibrium beliefs are restricted appropriately. The model analyzes the effect of the probability of settlement and litigation.