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
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
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
Who Appeals (and Wins) Patent Infringement Cases? https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4162979
Understanding Patent “Privateering”: A Quantitative Assessment https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jels.12217
The Effect of Patent Trolling on Innovation https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jerry_Yao3/publication/360931794_The_Effec…
The Effect of Patent Litigation Insurance: Theory and Evidence from NPEs https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3279130#references-widget
The Contagion of Patent Litigation Concerns https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4013180
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…
Predicting Administrative Patent Challenges https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3334248
Patents & Legal Expenditures https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3436410
Patent Validity and Litigation: Evidence from U.S. Inter Partes Review https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3720709
Patent Thickets and Mergers and Acquisitions https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4249384
Patent Enforcement and Subsequent Innovation https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3992810
Patent Aggregation in Europe: The Spotlight on Patent Licensing by Patent Aggregators https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3693814
Litigation versus spillovers https://adres2022.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Ryu_heesang.pdf
Introduction to the Stanford NPE Litigation Dataset https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Introduction-to-the-Stanfor…
How Essential Are Standard-Essential Patents? https://heinonline-org.stanford.idm.oclc.org/HOL/Page?public=true&handle=hein.j…
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…
Does Alice Target Patent Trolls? https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3561252
Do Standard-Essential Patent Owners Behave Opportunistically? Evidence from U.S. District Court Dockets https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3727085
Do Patent-Trolls Cause the High-Tech Firms to Delist? https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3905461
Defensive and offensive acquisition services in the market for patents http://dev.gtcenter.org/Downloads/WIPL/Cosandier2037.pdf
Corporate innovation linkages and firm boundaries https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2021/preliminary/powerpoint/6hZF6kK3
Continuing Patent Applications at the USPTO https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3924927
Continuation Patents and Litigation https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4027998
An IPO Pitfall: Patent Lawsuits https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3479253
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
An Empirical Study of Design Patent Litigation https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3551668