==Data Sources==
Data has been extracted from the '''[[USPTO Bulk Data]]''', the Harvard Dataverse, and Lex Machina, an online patent litigation database. {{#section:USPTO_Bulk_Data_Processing|bulk}}
{{#section:Harvard_Dataverse|dataverse}}The [[Patent|Patent Database]] contains the merged datasets from the USPTO bulk data and Harvard Dataverse using SQL. Specifics on how the datasets were merged are given in [[Patent Data Processing - SQL Steps]]. {{#section:Harvard_Dataverse|dataverse}}
==Database Specifics==