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DAVID L. SCHWARTZ

2025

Accepted Articles

• Patents Used in Patent Office Rejections as Indicators of Value, ___ Journal of Empirical Legal Studies ___ (forthcoming 2025) (Co-authored by: Christopher A. Cotropia).

2024

Articles

• Foreword, 119 Northwestern University Law Review 1 (2024) (Co-authored by: Kat M. Albrecht).

• The SCALES Project: Making Federal Court Records Free, 119 Northwestern University Law Review 23 (2024) (Co-authored by: Kat M. Albrecht, Adam R. Pah, Christopher A. Cotropia, Amy Kristin Sanders, Sarath Sanga, Charlotte S. Alexander, Luís A.N. Amaral, Zachary D. Clopton, Anne M. Tucker, Thomas W. Gaylord, Scott G. Daniel & Nathan Dahlberg).

• Innovator, Scholar, Friend: Remembering Dmitry Karshtedt, 21 Northwestern Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property 277 (2024) (Co-authored by: Laura Pedraza-Fariña).

2023

Articles

• Gender Discrimination in Online Markets, 25 American Law & Economics Review 230 (2023) (Co-authored by: Christopher A. Cotropia & Jonathan S. Masur).

• Political Ideology and Judicial Administration: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic, ___ Journal of Law, Economics & Organization ___ (forthcoming), Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 22-20 (2023) (Co-authored by: Adam Chilton, Christopher Anthony Cotropia, Kyle Rozema).

2022

Articles

• “Inventorless” Inventions? The Constitutional Conundrum of AI-Produced Inventions, 35 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 531 (2022) (Co-authored by: Max Rogers).

• The Promise of AI in an Open Justice System, AI Magazine 69 (Spring 2022) (Co-authored by: Adam R. Pah, Sarath Sanga, Charlotte S. Alexander, Kristian J. Hammond & Luís A.N. Amaral).

2021

Articles

• From Data to Information: Automating Data Science to Explore the U.S. Court System, 2021 ICAIL ’21: Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law 119 (Co-authored by: Adam Pah, Andrew Paley, Andong L. Li Zhao, Harper Pack, Sergio Servantez, Rachel F. Adler, Marko Sterbentz, Cameron Barrie, Alexander Einarsson & Kristian Hammond).

• Patently Risky: Framing, Innovation and Entrepreneurial Preferences, 34 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 191 (2020) (Co-authored by: Matthew L. Spitzer, Elizabeth Hoffman, & Eric L. Talley).

2020

Articles

• The Hidden Value of Abandoned Applications to the Patent System, 61 Boston College Law Review 2809 (2020) (Co-authored by: Christopher Anthony Cotropia).

• An Empirical Study of Design Patent Litigation, 72 Alabama Law Review 417 (2020) (Co-authored by: Xaviere Giroud).

• How to Build a More Open Justice System, 369 Science 134 (2020) (Co-authored by: Adam R. Pah, Sarath Sanga, Zachary D. Clopton, Peter DiCola, Rachel Davis Mersey, Charlotte S. Alexander, Kristian J. Hammond, & Luis A. Nunes Amaral).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Tear Down This Judicial Paywal, Wall Street Journal (Dec. 13, 2020) (Co-authored by: Sarath Sanga).

2019

Books

• Research Handbook on The Law & Economics Of Intellectual Property Law: Volume Ii (analytical Methods), co-edited by David L. Schwartz & Peter S. Menell, edited by David L. Schwartz & Peter S. Menell (2019).

Articles

• Understanding Patent “Privateering”: A Quantitative Assessment, 16 Journal Of Empirical Legal Studies 343 (2019) (Co-authored by: Jay P. Kesan & Anne Layne Farrar).

Contributions to Books

• Empirical Studies of the International Trade Commission, in Handbook on The Law & Economics of Intellectual Property 175 (David L. Schwartz & Peter S. Menell eds. 2019) (Co-authored by: Colleen V. Chien).

• Data Sources in Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, and Other Intellectual Property, in Research Handbook on The Law & Economics of Intellectual Property 2 (David L. Schwartz & Peter S. Menell eds. 2019) (Co-authored by: Ted Sichelman).

Working Papers

• USPTO Patent Number and Case Code File Dataset Documentation, USPTO Economic Working Paper No. 2019-05, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 19-12 (2019) (Co-authored by: Ted M. Sichelman & Richard Miller).

2018

Articles

• Bridges II: The Law-STEM Alliance & Next Generation Innovation -- Introduction and Combined Responses, 112 Northwestern University Law Review Online 133 (2018) (Co-authored by: Pierre Larouche, Leslie Oster, Laura Pedraza-Fariña, Devin R. Desai, Jay P. Kesan, Daryl Lim, Ivory Mills, Pilar Ossorio, Jacob S. Sherkow, Jessica Silbey, D. Daniel Sokol, Harry Surden, Ryan Whalen, & Christopher S. Yoo).

• Heterogeneity Among Patent Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Patent Case Progression, Settlement, and Adjudication, 15 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 80 (2018) (Co-authored by: Christopher Anthony Cotropia, & Jay P. Kesan) and SSRN(2017).

• How Often Do Non-Practicing Entities Win Patent Suits?, 32 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 237 (2017) (Co-authored by: John R. Allison, and Mark A. Lemley).

2017

Books

• The Law of Design: Design Patent, Trademark, & Copyright - Problems, Cases, and Materials (West Academic 2017) (Co-authored by: Edward S. Lee, & Mark McKenna).

Working Papers

• Progression and Workload in Civil Litigation: An Empirical Analysis of Patent Disputes, University of Illinois College of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-37 (2017) (Co-authored by: Christopher Anthony Cotropia, Jay P. Kesan, & Kyle Rozema).

• Endogenous Litigation Costs: An Empirical Analysis of Patent Disputes, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law Law & Economics Series No. 17-01 (2017) (Co-authored by: Kyle Rozema, & Jay Kesan).

2015

Articles

• Understanding the Realities of Modern Patent Litigation, 92 Texas Law Review 1769 (2014) (Co-authored by: John R. Allison, & Mark A. Lemley).

• Our Divided Patent System, 82 University of Chicago Law Review 1073 (2015) (Co-authored by: John Allison & Mark Lemley).

2014

Articles

• Unpacking Patent Assertion Entities, 99 Minnesota Law Review 649 (2014) (Co-authored by: Christopher A. Cotropia & Jay Kesan).

• Analyzing the Role of Non-Practicing Entities in the Patent System, 99 Cornell Law Review 425 (2014) (Co-authored by: Jay Kesan).

• Standards of Proof in Civil Litigation: An Experiment from Patent Law, 26 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 429 (2013) (Co-authored by: Christopher Seaman).

• The Rise of Contingent Fee Representation in Patent Litigation, 64 Alabama Law Review 335 (2012).

• An Empirical Assessment of the Supreme Court’s Use of Legal Scholarship, 106 Northwestern University Law Review 995 (2012) (Co-authored by: Lee Petherbridge).

• Explaining the Demise of the Doctrine of Equivalents, 25 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 1157 (2011).

• Practice Makes Perfect? An Empirical Study of Claim Construction Reversal Rates in Patent Cases, 107 Michigan Law Review 223 (2008).