Network Law Review, Winter 2014ISSN 3050-452X
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Article
“Patent troll”: statistical comparison between cases and research papers
- a Associate Professor of Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Faculty Affiliate, Stanford CodeX
Article info
- Published
- 14 January 2014
- Issue
- Winter 2014
- Cite as
- Schrepel, T. (2014, Winter). “Patent troll”: statistical comparison between cases and research papers. Network Law Review. https://
www .networklawreview .org/ patent-troll-statistical-comparison-between-cases-and-research-papers/
This post introduces a new series dedicated to statistical analyses of antitrust law. We called it: “Let’s Stat”.
Methodology:
We entered the keywords “patent troll” on the Papers SSRN search engine, as well as on WestLaw (for all State and Federal cases).
Comments:
- Of course, the Courts are now using the term “patent troll” for practices they may have described differently in former years. Still, the increased use of “patent troll” keywords appears to be a good indicator of Court tendencies.
- Papers SSRN does not gather all research papers. However, we presume that SSRN papers are a representative sample of all papers written on the subject.