Patent Litigation data (stata (.dta) and MS Excel (.csv))

Patent assignment economics data for academia and researchers: created/maintained by the USPTO Chief Economist (JAN 1970 - DEC 2022)

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Contains detailed information on roughly 10.0 million patent assignments and other transactions recorded at the USPTO since 1970 and involving roughly 17.8 million patents and patent applications. For more information: http://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/electronic-data-products/data
Contains detailed U.S. District Courts patent litigation data on 81,350 unique court cases filed during the period 1963 - 2020. The data was collected from the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) and RECAP as sources for all of the content. The final output datasets, provided in five different files, include information on the litigating parties involved and their attorneys; the cause of action; the court location; important dates in the litigation history; and, covering over 5 million document level information from the docket reports, descriptions of all documents submitted in a given case.
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