I am trying to get a list of Top 2000 companies with highest patent
litigation expense as a percentage of revenue. Any help would be much
appreciated.

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 18 Dec 2005 19:23 PST

pgresearch-ga,

I suspect the list you are seeking is one of those ungettable sorts of things.

It seems likely that that companies with higest litigation-to-revenue
ratios would be smaller companies, for which there is generally much
less information available than for their big-boy counterparts.  This
is especially the case with private companies.

And to find *any* list with 2000 company names on it is a challenge in itself.  

You may want to rethink your approach on this one.  Just a suggestion...

pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by pgresearch-ga on 18 Dec 2005 19:55 PST

I was especially keen on private companies. However, sounds like that
will be hard to get so maybe just restrict to Public companies and the
first 1000.

So rephrased:
I am trying to get a list of Top 1000 public companies with highest patent
litigation expense as a percentage of revenue. Any help would be much
appreciated.

Even with 1000 items, the question is seriously underpriced.
It would only be paractical to find such a list if it would already exist.

However, I would guess, the company at the top wouls be SCO"
http://ir.sco.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=150915
http://mk.ucant.org/archives/000091.html
When asked if its controversial moves had negatively affected the
Lindon, Utah, company's ability to attract new clients, Jeff Hunsaker,
senior vice president of SCO's Unix division, said, "Absolutely,
unequivocally yes. Everybody says that President Bush has the hardest
job. I think that I have the hardest job. This is a tough job."
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1633439,00.asp

However, these data are not allways public

As you will notice - I have increased the price from $10 to $100

You can increase the price to thousands of dollars...I still don't
think this sort of information exists.

Again, you may want to re-think your approach to the subject matter,
so that we can find a way to assist you.  For instance, we can
certainly identify some companies with unusually large litigation
expenses, if that would help at all.

paf