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by mxfh 1700 days ago
The point is the the US has a neat way of avoiding individual responsibility with that setup. Judges are way more impartial since they have personal accountability, that's how the rest of the world does it, where a trial by jury is simply, and provenly the wrong tool for complex special domain cases.

[1] p1514:

According to these results, the patentee is significantly more likely to win a jury trial if: (1) the infringer is foreign; (2) the infringer is a corporation; and (3) the patentee is the plaintiff. The multivariate regression model further supports the conclusion that American juries favor domestic over foreign parties in patent trials.

[1] p1510:

Patentee win rate by Party Alienage:

Patentee-Accused Infringer / Jury / Judge

Domestic-Domestic / 71% / 29% Foreign-Domestic / 38% / 31%

[1] https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/publications/working_pa...