This five-part series of articles outlines how decision trees and risk analysis techniques can be applied to a patent litigation case. Options such as settling versus going to trial, and associated payoffs, are discussed. PrecisionTree and @RISK are mentioned, and the techniques used can be applied directly with the software.

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Palisade Corporation is a software developer that produces decision support tools for professionals in many lines of work. The company was founded in 1984, and at present more than 400,000 people use Palisade’s software in fields that range from finance to oil and mineral exploration, real estate to heavy manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals to aerospace. Its software is used by many Fortune 500 companies, including Shell Oil, Procter & Gamble, ExxonMobil, Chase Manhattan, and by prominent economic and financial consultants.