Home > IP Solutions > Global Patent Litigation Data Predict Outcomes and Shape Strategy with Global Patent Litigation Data Gain unmatched insight into patent litigation and prosecution trends worldwide with cleansed and verified data. Why patent litigation data? litigation Products key benefits FAQs Get in Touch The LexisNexis® Global Patent Litigation Dataset (GPLD) and LexisNexis PatentAdvisor® API equip you with verified, harmonized, and ready-to-integrate patent litigation data. By leveraging these datasets you can identify risks in M&A transcations, forecast outcomes in unpredictable court cases, and make smarter IP and business decisions, ranging from tracking the right competitors to ancitipating an examiner’s behavior when preparing applications. Why Choose Patent Litigation Data Products? The LexisNexis® Global Patent Litigation Dataset (GPLD) and LexisNexis PatentAdvisor® API empower you to integrate comprehensive patent litigation data directly into your internal systems. By combining these datasets with your own proprietary metrics, you can uncover powerful insights that enhance decision-making across the entire intellectual property lifecycle. Whether you are a patent attorney, in-house counsel, or IP strategist, access to this patent litigation data helps you better understand the global technology landscape, anticipate risks in acquiring or defending patent portfolios, and predict examiner behavior to improve prosecution outcomes. Ultimately, our patent litigation data enables you to: Assess litigation risks across 20+ jurisdictions with standardized global data. Predict patent prosecution outcomes using examiner-specific analytics. Support M&A due diligence with complete litigation and ownership histories. Integrate data seamlessly into your analytics platforms via flexible API and Databricks delivery. What Litigation Data Products Can You Access? Global Patent Litigation Dataset Global court data structured by case, party, and patent, from complaints to rulings. Integrate litigation risk directly into platforms and track competitor enforcement activity in real time, as well as identify risky M&A targets before it is too late. Big data network and IOT concept.Machine learning algorithms. Analysis of information. Technology data network connectivity, complexity with moving lines, dots.Data flood of modern digital age. PatentAdvisor® API U.S. patent prosecution data that includes examiner behavior and office action patterns, designed to help you build a cost-effective filing strategy. It enables you to implement the best possible and predict your patent prosecution outcome with the most reliable and expansive patent prosecution analysis software in the industry. Who Are Our Global Litigation Datasets Suited For? Large Corporations By leveraging patent litigation data and detailed examiner insights, corporations can evaluate the strength of their portfolios, assess potential risks, and make strategic decisions about patent filings, acquisitions, or enforcement.Gain a clearer view of global technology trends, anticipate disputes before they escalate, and align R&D and legal strategies to extract maximum value from your intellectual property. Large Law Firms Deliver data-backed IP counsel that sets your firm apart. Patent litigation data and examiner analytics allow you to forecast case outcomes, identify favorable jurisdictions, and benchmark your clients’ portfolios against competitors.Enhance your prosecution strategies with examiner behavior insights, improve litigation readiness, and guide clients with greater confidence, all while strengthening your firm’s reputation for precision and results-driven legal advice. Data Services Transform how your organization accesses and applies IP intelligence. Through direct data integration, you can combine patent litigation data and examiner insights with your own analytics, workflows, and business systems.Build automation, develop custom dashboards, and unlock deeper correlations between litigation activity and patent performance, empowering your teams to make faster, smarter, and more informed decisions. Key Benefits for You Global Litigation Visibility Access a continuously updated collection of over 570,000 litigation documents sourced from 22 countries/authorities and 500+ court and agency websites, refreshed daily. This includes: Global case law: filed and closed case-related documents Agency/board proceedings: opposition filings, opinions, validity rulings Outcomes and summaries where available (e.g., infringed, invalidated) Prosecution Foresight Analyze 10.5M+ USPTO applications and understand examiner behavior. Leverage our proprietary examiner comparison score to forecast both likelihood and time-to-grant for more strategic filing. Access a complete visualization of the prosecution process of a patent application, including quick access to all associated office actions and appeal documents. Quality-Assured Data Our team reviews over 40 high-priority sources daily, combining automated and manual methods to ensure near 100% accuracy in field population. Data is uploaded to Databricks multiple times a day, often within hours of a source update. Missing patent numbers? We run refined searches to locate them. Non-English content? We translate and populate fields in both languages. Image files? We use OCR to extract every available detail. Confident Due Diligence Make informed acquisition and investment decisions with real-time access to prosecution trends, entity exposures, and litigation histories. Perform freedom-to-operate searches and identify the best forum for filing, ultimately ensuring an efficient and risk averse patent strategy. What Data Do You Get with the Global Patent Litigation Dataset? What Data Points Can You Access in the Global Patent Litigation Dataset and PatentAdvisor® API? 600,000 global patent cases from 20+ countries 570K litigation documents from 22 countries USPTO prosecution data dating back to 2001 Examiner comparison scores (ETA) and allowance rates Patent case outcome tracking Multilingual data population and OCR-based image extraction LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR DATA QUALITY Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) What is the Global Patent Litigation Dataset (GPLD)? The GPLD is a court-sourced dataset covering over 600,000 patent-related cases from 20+ jurisdictions, including the US, China, Germany, Japan, the UK, the Unified Patent Court, and the EPOMaster. It includes case documents, party details, outcomes, and product associations to help you identify litigation trends and high-risk patents. What types of documents are included in the GPLD? The dataset contains over 570,000 litigation documents, including filed case documents, closed case summaries, opposition proceedings, opinions, validity rulings, and related attachments collected from 500+ courts and agency websites. How often is the GPLD updated? The GPLD is updated daily via Databricks Delta Sharing, ensuring you have access to the latest case filings, decisions, and associated data. What fields are available in the GPLD? Common fields include country, court, parties, judge, attorneys, outcome, damages, patent numbers, patent families, patent owner, and product details. Some fields vary by jurisdiction. What is the PatentAdvisor® API? The PatentAdvisor API provides USPTO prosecution insights and examiner analytics for over 10.5 million applications dating back to 2001. It enables grant likelihood predictions, examiner behavior analysis, and filing strategy optimization. What unique metrics does the PatentAdvisor API offer? The API features the proprietary Examiner Time Allocation (ETA) score, which predicts how long and how likely an examiner is to grant a patent based on historical behavior. Gain unmatched insight into patent litigation and prosecution trends worldwide. Let us help you integrate best-in-class litigation data into your internal analytics workflows. We’d love to hear more about your data architecture, goals, and where our litigation data could help: Let’s talk about your current data strategy and integration needs. Get a walkthrough of how our data structure fits with your systems.
