Data Sources Available In IP

David L. Schwartz, Northwestern Law School, and Ted M. Sichelman, University of San Diego Law School, are publishing Data Sources on Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, and Other Intellectual Property in 2 Research Handbook on the Law & Economics of Intellectual Property (Peter S. Menell, David L. Schwartz, and Ben Depoorter, eds.; Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016). Here is the abstract.

In this book chapter, we provide a roadmap of the sources of data on the various forms of intellectual property protection. We first explain what data is available about patents, copyrights, trademarks, and other types of intellectual property, and where to find it. Then we identify and analyze data sources specifically relating to intellectual property licensing and litigation, growing areas of research by scholars and lawyers.

Download the chapter from SSRN at the link.