White Papers


RPX publishes papers covering a variety of timely topics. Please find our most recent papers below.

Quantifying Patent Eligibility Judgments

Quantifying Patent Eligibility Judgments, Predicting whether an invention including software is eligible for patent protection is notoriously difficult due to rapid changes in law and technology.

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Standard Essential Patents: How Do They Fare?

Standard Essential Patents, or SEPs, are patents that cover technologies considered to be established standards in a particular industry. Our data offers insight into the performance of SEPs in infringement and validity challenges, as well as overall win/loss rates.

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RPX Analysis — The Prevalence of Software Patent Assertion

The Supreme Court recently upheld the patentability of software but raised the bar on what types of software can be patented. Our research sheds light on how common claims to computer-implemented inventions are, the frequency with which NPEs assert software patents, and other metrics related to this area in the patent space.

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