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Patent Litigation Docket Report Data Files for Academia and Researchers (1963 - 2016)

Data provided by  United States Patent and Trademark Office

Contains detailed U.S. District Courts patent litigation data on 74,623 unique court cases filed during the period 1963 - 2016. 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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Updated: 2024-02-22
Metadata Last Updated: 2021-12-10
Date Created: N/A
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Dataset Owner: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

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Title Patent Litigation Docket Report Data Files for Academia and Researchers (1963 - 2016)
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Modified 2021-12-10
Publisher Name Office of the Chief Economist (OCE)
Contact mailto:[email protected]
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