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Issues in Settling Patent Litigation - The Lessons of Halco


Introduction
   

"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility."
-Michael Korda



"Nothing is more fatal than a dodge. Wrongs will be forgiven, sufferings and losses will be forgiven or forgotten . . . but anything like a trick will always rankle."
-Winston Churchill to the House of Commons in 1906



In the end, most patent lawsuits are settled.

After the most solemn and repeated declarations from each side that this is a war to the death, after hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent by both sides, after management has worried and fretted for years about this problem and what affect the final outcome will have on the future of the business, after numerous corporate employees and lawyers have spent many an hour trying to divine if it would be a better career move to be seen to be associated with the law suit or not, it almost always settles.