The Supreme Court's 2oo6 decision in eBay v. MercExchange is widely regarded as one of
the most important patent law rulings of the past decade. Historically, patent holders who …

We provide the first large-sample evidence on the behavior and impact of nonpracticing
entities (NPEs) in the intellectual property space. We find that, on average, NPEs appear to …

This detailed empirical and doctrinal study of copyright trolling presents new data showing
the astonishing rate of growth of multi-defendant John Doe litigation in United States district …

A commonly offered justification for patent trolls or nonpracticing entities (" NPEs") is that
they serve as a middleman, facilitating innovation and bringing new technology from …

This paper empirically investigates the statistical relationship between levels of patent
litigation and venture capital investment in the US We find that VC investment, a major …

Despite widespread interest in the impact of patent assertion entities (" PAEs") on the US
patent system, there has been no publicly available dataset that categorizes more than a …

We introduce and describe the Patent Similarity Dataset, comprising vector space model‐
based similarity scores for US utility patents. The dataset provides approximately 640 million …

The five years since Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, 573 US 208 (2014) have
witnessed an explosion in patentable subject matter decisions‐‐and in political controversy …

The last decade has seen a sharp rise in patent litigation in the United States; 2015 has one
of the highest patent lawsuit counts on record (1). In theory, this could reflect growth in …

The Defend Trade Secret Act of 20161 is one of the most significant developments in
intellectual property (" IF') law in recent years. 2 Long neglected within IP law, 3 the …