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Claim Construction Database Updated Through September 13, 2006

The database has been updated through September 13, 2006. It now contains all 749 claim construction opinions of the Federal Circuit since Markman I (April 1995).

Access the database by clcking here.

Posted by Polk Wagner on January 1, 2007 1:15 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Obviousness Project: Initial Data Released

The data associated with our recent paper, The Federal Circuit and Patentability: An Empirical Assessment of the Law of Obviousness, is available below (in Excel [.xls] and Comma-Separated-Value [.csv] formats).

// Summary of the Dataset //
- Start Date: March 8, 1990
- End Date: May 25, 2005
- Records: 480
- Inclusion criteria: An observable analysis of obviousness in a Federal Circuit opinion from 1/1/1990 to 5/25/2005. (Note that this means that there are more records than cases.)

// Data Files //
- Field Descriptions [ XLS File ] [ CSV File ]
- Data File [ XLS File ] [ CSV File ]

Posted by Polk Wagner on January 15, 2007 12:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)