Empirical Legal Research: Data Sources & Repositories
A collection of electronically-available data and statistics on a wide variety of legal and law-related topics, including U.S. and global economics, law enforcement and criminal justice, litigation, bankruptcy, finance, and more.
For more information about academic use and to sign up for the required online training, go to Lex Machina Public Interest.
Lex Machina is a litigation analytics tool that captures data by crawling PACER, ITC's EDIS, USPTO, and state court data every 24 hours. It then mines this litigation data to reveal insights about judges, lawyers, parties, and patents. Law School faculty, students, and staff may request access for academic research.
Large collection of detailed data on U.S. trademarks and patents, including applications, grants, assignments, patent prosecutions, trademark applications & images, and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board decisions
To advance research on matters relevant to intellectual property, entrepreneurship, and innovation, the Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) releases datasets to facilitate economic research on patents and trademarks; wide array of rich data.
data comprise detail information on almost 3 million U.S. patents granted between January 1963 and 2006, all citations made to these patents between 1975 and 2006 (over 16 million), and a reasonably broad match of patents to Compustat (the data set of all firms traded in the U.S. stock market).
The Stanford Non-Practicing Entity (NPE) Litigation Dataset (the Dataset) is the first ever publicly available database to track comprehensively how practicing entities, non-practicing entities (NPEs), and patent assertion entities (PAEs) claim patent ownership rights in litigation. NPEs do not make products or offer services while PAEs—often referred to as “patent trolls”—employ patents primarily to obtain license fees, rather than support the transfer or commercialization of technology.
Online service enabling access to WIPO’s statistical data on intellectual property (IP) activity worldwide. Users can select from a wide range of indicators and view or download the latest available as well as historical data according to their needs.
For more information about academic use and to sign up for the required online training, go to Lex Machina Public Interest.
Lex Machina is a litigation analytics tool that captures data by crawling PACER, ITC's EDIS, USPTO, and state court data every 24 hours. It then mines this litigation data to reveal insights about judges, lawyers, parties, and patents. Law School faculty, students, and staff may request access for academic research.