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Guest Post: Third-Party Litigation Funding: Disclosure to Courts, Congress, and the Executive

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ten years ago—at least in part due to longstanding common law rules on champerty, maintenance, [3] and patent law’s relative high risk—today third-party litigation funding (TPLF) [4] undergirds about 30% of all patent litigation, by conservative estimates. [5] See Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, Memorandum 4 (Dec. 2, 2014). [22]