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IAM Magazine reports on differing estimates of patent litigation costs- All change at End Software Patents again. The organisation has now downgraded its claims of the total costs involved in software patent litigation in the US from $30.4 billion per annum to $11.2 billion per annum. This follows an email that both myself and Ben Klemens, the executive director of End Software Patents, received from Jim Bessen and Mike Meurer concerning the stats used by the organisation which, it stated, were based on the two men’s research.
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Interestingly, while Bessen and Meurer (conservatively) estimate that the current total cost of software patent litigation in the US is $8 billion, No Software Patents has the figure at $11.2 billion. I make no comment, but merely point out the disparity.
However, the bigger picture is that on Friday End Software Patents was claiming that $11.4 billion is "wasted" each year “in litigation over software patents”. Now, after a brief flirtation with a sum in excess of $30 billion, the organisation is stating that $11.26 billion of costs are “incurred by software patent lawsuits”. This is something completely different and is probably a lot closer to the reality, although there is still no real explanation of what that extrapolated figure actually means. Its important to point out that patent litigation costs are estimates (as well as piracy, industry expansion and economic growth projections). I look forward to following the discussion over patent litigation costs among the policy figures noted above.
posted by Noel Le @ 5:33 PM | Patents
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