Empirical Studies in Intellectual Property

The Center for Empirical Studies of Intellectual Property at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law has created an Empirical Studies Database.

You can sort by:

• Lead author
• Title
• IP area (patent seems to have the most, but there are papers on copyright and trademark too)
• Type of study
  • Experimental
  • Qualitative
  • Quantitative

You can only sort by one at a time: you can’t easily look for, say, qualitative studies of copyright. But you can sort on one factor and then either skim or use Find (Ctrl-F) to look for the other.

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