Publications

The Stanford NPE Litigation Database is a public resource, designed in part to be used by scholars when conducting empirical research in their respective fields. This Publications page lists research papers that have used the data from the Stanford NPE Litigation Database in their analysis. We hope that the data available on this website will continue to be used for innovative and exciting research that informs public policy. If you do not see your research paper listed below and believe that it should be, or you have any questions regarding this page, please contact Katelyn Meylor (kmeylor@stanford.edu).
Title of Publication Author(s) Link Date of Publication
Patent Thickets and Mergers and Acquisitions https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4249384
Who Appeals (and Wins) Patent Infringement Cases? https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4162979
The Effect of Patent Trolling on Innovation https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jerry_Yao3/publication/360931794_The_Effec…
Continuation Patents and Litigation https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4027998
The Contagion of Patent Litigation Concerns https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4013180
Escaping the Patent Trolls: The Impact of Non-Practicing Entity Litigation on Firm Innovation Strategies https://mackinstitute.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Huang-Kennet…
Litigation versus spillovers https://adres2022.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Ryu_heesang.pdf
Patent Enforcement and Subsequent Innovation https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3992810
Continuing Patent Applications at the USPTO https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3924927
An Empirical Test of Patent Hold-Out Theory: Evidence from Litigation of Standard Essential Patents https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3950060
Do Patent-Trolls Cause the High-Tech Firms to Delist? https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3905461
The AIA at Ten - How Much Do the Pre-AIA Prior Art Rules Still Matter? https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1993&context=fac…
Patent Aggregation in Europe: The Spotlight on Patent Licensing by Patent Aggregators https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3693814
Patent Validity and Litigation: Evidence from U.S. Inter Partes Review https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3720709
Do Standard-Essential Patent Owners Behave Opportunistically? Evidence from U.S. District Court Dockets https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3727085
Corporate innovation linkages and firm boundaries https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2021/preliminary/powerpoint/6hZF6kK3
Does Alice Target Patent Trolls? https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3561252
An Empirical Study of Design Patent Litigation https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3551668
An IPO Pitfall: Patent Lawsuits https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3479253
Patents & Legal Expenditures https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3436410
Understanding Patent “Privateering”: A Quantitative Assessment https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jels.12217
How Essential Are Standard-Essential Patents? https://heinonline-org.stanford.idm.oclc.org/HOL/Page?public=true&handle=hein.j…
Predicting Administrative Patent Challenges https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3334248
The Effect of Patent Litigation Insurance: Theory and Evidence from NPEs https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3279130#references-widget
Who’s Suing Us? Decoding Patent Plaintiffs since 2000 with the Stanford NPE Litigation Dataset https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3216095
Will Delaware Be Different? An Empirical Study of TC Heartland and the Shift to Defendant Choice of Venue https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3183563
Introduction to the Stanford NPE Litigation Dataset https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Introduction-to-the-Stanfor…
Defensive and offensive acquisition services in the market for patents http://dev.gtcenter.org/Downloads/WIPL/Cosandier2037.pdf