David L. Schwartz

Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law

Frederic P. Vose Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Research & Intellectual Life

375 E. Chicago Ave

Chicago, IL 60611

United States

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Scholarly Papers (31)

1.

The Rise of Contingent Fee Representation in Patent Litigation

64 Alabama Law Review 335 (2012)
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 24 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2012
David L. Schwartz
Downloads 3,110 (8,146)
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Analyzing the Role of Non-Practicing Entities in the Patent System

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 99, Issue 2, pp. 425-456 (2014), Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No. LBSS13-03, Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 13-01
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 25 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2014
David L. Schwartz and Jay P. Kesan
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and University of Illinois College of Law
Downloads 3,028 (8,506)
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patent, troll, NPE, PAE, patent assertion, empirical, patent litigation

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Understanding the Realities of Modern Patent Litigation

92 Texas Law Review 1769 (2014), Chicago-Kent College of Law Research Paper No. 2014-12, Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 2442451
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 28 May 2014 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2014
John R. Allison, Mark A. Lemley and David L. Schwartz
University of Texas - McCombs School of Business, Stanford Law School and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 2,466 (11,784)
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Unpacking Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs)

99 Minnesota Law Review 649 (2014), Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No. LBSS 14-20, Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 14-17, Chicago-Kent College of Law Research Paper No. 2013-49
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 07 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 19 Dec 2014
University of Richmond - School of Law, University of Illinois College of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 2,284 (13,319)
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patents, patent litigation, non-practicing entity, NPE, patent assertion entity, PAE, patent monetization entity, PME, patent troll, American Invents Act, joinder, patent holding company, empirical

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USPTO Patent Number and Case Code File Dataset Documentation

USPTO Economic Working Paper No. 2019-05, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 19-12, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 20-435
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 23 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2020
David L. Schwartz, Ted M. Sichelman and Richard Miller
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, University of San Diego School of Law and United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Downloads 2,010 (16,281)
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Patents, Litigation, Intellectual Property

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Practice Makes Perfect? An Empirical Study of Claim Construction Reversal Rates in Patent Cases

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 107, p. 223, 2008, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers, Chicago-Kent Intellectual Property, Science & Technology Research Paper No. 09-016
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2010
David L. Schwartz
Downloads 1,370 (29,307)
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patent, claim construction, empirical, judge, reversal, judicial

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Our Divided Patent System

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 82, pp. 1073-1154 (2015), Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 2510004, Chicago-Kent College of Law Research Paper No. 2014-28
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 14 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2016
John R. Allison, Mark A. Lemley and David L. Schwartz
University of Texas - McCombs School of Business, Stanford Law School and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 904 (53,119)
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How Often Do Non-Practicing Entities Win Patent Suits?

32 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 235 (2017), Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 485, Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 2750128, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 16-08, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 16-03
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 20 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2020
John R. Allison, Mark A. Lemley and David L. Schwartz
University of Texas - McCombs School of Business, Stanford Law School and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 716 (72,579)
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The Use of Legal Scholarship by the Federal Courts of Appeals: An Empirical Study

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 96, p. 1345, 2011, 5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2010-38
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 17 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2012
David L. Schwartz and Lee Petherbridge
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Loyola Law School Los Angeles
Downloads 685 (76,775)
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Law Reviews, Law and Courts, Judges, Circuit Courts, Legal Scholarship, Law Journals, Empirical, Law and Society

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An Empirical Assessment of the Supreme Court’s Use of Legal Scholarship

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 106, Page 995, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2011-31
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 13 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2012
Lee Petherbridge and David L. Schwartz
Loyola Law School Los Angeles and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 663 (80,032)
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Supreme Court, Empirical, Courts, Judges, Law & Courts, Development of Law, Jurisprudence, Law & Society, Legal Scholarship, Use of Legal Scholarship, Law Reviews, Law Journals, Legal Academy

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Data Sources on Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, and Other Intellectual Property

2 Research Handbook on the Law & Economics of Intellectual Property (Peter S. Menell, David L. Schwartz & Ben Depoorter, eds., Edgar Elgar Publishing) (2018, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 20 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2017
David L. Schwartz and Ted M. Sichelman
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
Downloads 512 (110,732)

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intellectual property, patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, data sources, dataset, empirical

12.

Courting Specialization: An Empirical Study of Claim Construction Comparing Patent Litigation Before Federal District Courts and the International Trade Commission

William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 50, p. 1699, 2009, Chicago-Kent Intellectual Property, Science & Technology Research Paper No. 10-023
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 19 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2010
David L. Schwartz
Downloads 465 (124,204)
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patent, claim construction, empirical, international trade commission, ITC, judge, district court, reversal rate

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An Empirical Study of Design Patent Litigation

72 Alabama Law Review 417 (2020), Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 20-03
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 23 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2020
David L. Schwartz and Xaviere Giroud
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 406 (145,720)
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Standards of Proof in Civil Litigation: An Experiment from Patent Law

26 Harvard Journal of Law &Technology 429 (2013)., 7th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper (2012)., Chicago-Kent College of Law Research Paper No. 2012-13
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 17 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2015
David L. Schwartz and Christopher B. Seaman
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Washington and Lee University School of Law
Downloads 375 (159,208)
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patent, experiment, empirical, presumption, burden of proof, standard of proof, obvious, i4i

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Paving the Path to Accurately Predicting Legal Outcomes: A Comment on Professor Chien’s Predicting Patent Litigation

Texas Law Review See Also, Vol. 90, pp. 97-109, 2012, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 12-079, Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 11-12, Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No. LBSS12-09
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 18 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 19 Apr 2012
Jay P. Kesan, David L. Schwartz and Ted M. Sichelman
University of Illinois College of Law, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
Downloads 336 (179,567)

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patent litigation, predicting, patent, federal circuit, outcomes, empirical

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Patents Used in Patent Office Rejections as Indicators of Value

Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 24-19, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 24-28, Forthcoming, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2025)
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 13 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2024
Christopher Anthony Cotropia and David L. Schwartz
University of Richmond - School of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 307 (197,653)

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patent, patent citation, patent value, forward citation, patent application, examiner, patent prosecution

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Inventorless Inventions? The Constitutional Conundrum of AI-Produced Inventions

35 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 531 (2022), Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 22-05
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 09 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2022
David L. Schwartz and Max Rogers
Downloads 290 (209,899)

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patent, AI, artificial intelligence, Constitution, IP Clause

18.

Gender Discrimination in Online Markets

University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 864, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 692, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 18-24
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 21 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2019
University of Richmond - School of Law, University of Chicago - Law School and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
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discrimination, gender, experiment, ebay, baseball cards

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Political Ideology and Judicial Administration: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 22-20
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 02 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 28 Feb 2023
University of Chicago - Law School, University of Richmond - School of Law, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 274 (222,504)

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Judicial Politics, Judicial Behavior, Federal Courts, Political Ideology, COVID-19

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Legal Scholarship and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: An Empirical Study of a National Circuit

26 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 1561 (2012), Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2011-07
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 16 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2012
David L. Schwartz and Lee Petherbridge
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Loyola Law School Los Angeles
Downloads 259 (235,389)
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Courts, Legal Scholarship, Federal Circuit, National Circuit, Subject Matter Courts, Specialized Courts, Empirical, Empirics, Jurisprudence, Decisional law, Development of Law, Development of Jurisprudence, Role of Legal Academy

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Explaining the Demise of the Doctrine of Equivalents

Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 26, p. 1157, 2011
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 09 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2014
David L. Schwartz
Downloads 248 (245,798)

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patent, federal circuit, doctrine of equivalents, claim construction, markman, empirical

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Patently Risky: Framing, Innovation and Entrepreneurial Preference

34 Harv. J. of Law & Tech 192 (2020).
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 29 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2021
Iowa State University, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Northwestern University School of Law and Columbia University - School of Law
Downloads 247 (246,794)
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Patent Law, Intellectual Property, Experimental Economics, Risk Preferences, Corporate Law

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The Hidden Value of Abandoned Applications to the Patent System

Boston College Law Review, Vol. 61, page 2809, 2020, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 19-08, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 19-18
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 08 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2020
Christopher Anthony Cotropia and David L. Schwartz
University of Richmond - School of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 204 (296,022)
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patents, citations, value, abandoned, patent system, USPTO

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Understanding Patent 'Privateering': A Quantitative Assessment

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Forthcoming, University of Illinois College of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-36, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 18-23
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 12 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2019
Jay P. Kesan, Anne Layne-Farrar and David L. Schwartz
University of Illinois College of Law, Charles River Associates and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 200 (301,531)
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Heterogeneity Among Patent Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Patent Case Progression, Settlement, and Adjudication

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Volume 15, Issue 1, 80-125, March 2018, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper, University of Illinois College of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-10
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 10 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2018
University of Richmond - School of Law, University of Illinois College of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 197 (305,706)
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Patent, Litigation, PAE, NPE, Troll, Empirical, Patent Litigation

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On Mass Patent Aggregators

Columbia Law Review Sidebar, Vol. 114, page 51 (2014), Chicago-Kent College of Law Research Paper No. 2014-20
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 24 May 2014 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2014
David L. Schwartz
Downloads 196 (307,111)

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patent, troll, aggregator, NPE, PAE, non-practicing entity, patent assertion entity, licensing

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Retroactivity at the Federal Circuit

89 IND. L.J. 1548 (2014), Chicago-Kent College of Law Research Paper No. 2013-40
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 18 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2015
David L. Schwartz
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retroactivity, retroactive, prospective, federal circuit, patent

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Empirical Studies of the International Trade Commission

2 Research Handbook On The Law & Economics Of Intellectual Property (Peter S. Menell & David L. Schwartz, eds., Edgar Elgar Publishing)(2017 Forthcoming), Santa Clara Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2-17
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 04 May 2017 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2022
Colleen V. Chien and David L. Schwartz
UC Berkeley School of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 145 (398,478)

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ITC, International Trade Commission, Section 337

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Pre-Markman Reversal Rates

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Vol. 43, p. 1073, 2010 (symposium issue)
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 26 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2014
David L. Schwartz
Downloads 135 (421,520)

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patent, claim, claim construction, empirical, reversal rate, markman, cybor

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The End of an Epithet? An Exploration of the Use of Legal Scholarship in Intellectual Property Decisions

Houston Law Review, Vol. 50, No. 2, 2013, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2013-8
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 09 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2013
Lee Petherbridge and David L. Schwartz
Loyola Law School Los Angeles and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 128 (439,411)
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Patent, Federal Circuit, Federal Circuit Performance, Legal Scholarship, Supreme Court, Intellectual Property

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The SCALES Project: Making Federal Court Records Free

Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 24-24, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 24-16, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper, 119 Northwestern University Law Review 23 (2024)
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 06 Sep 2024
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Criminology & Criminal Justice Department, Georgia State University, University of Richmond - School of Law, University of Texas at Austin - School of Journalism, Yale University - Law School, Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business, Northwestern University, Northwestern University - Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Georgia State University College of Law, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Independent and Georgia State University
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court records, PACER, federal court, dockets, empirical research, dataset, federal judiciary