Study on Pleading with Particularity
As any practitioner knows, complaints for patent infringement vary widely in how specifically they accuse infringement – some call out particular patent claims, some call out products or features, some do both, and others neither.
The specificity of a complaint directly impacts the cost of defending a […]
Some time ago, a colleague posed an interesting question to me in hopes that Lex Machina’s data might be able to shed some light:
Have the kind or size of firms handling patent cases changed much over the last few years? In other words, are companies increasingly choosing smaller, cheaper boutiques, […]
In the last post, I covered the final 2014 filing statistics – a low November and an uptick in December that was unable to make up for the slow months since June, leaving 2014 down 18% from 2013.
Here, let’s look more closely at these trends, how they’re […]
2014 has ended, though perhaps not yet for many court clerks who will continue entering paperwork from their backlog for another week or so, if history is a guide. These numbers are therefore preliminary and can be expected to rise slightly as the backlog is processed.
441 new patent cases were […]
Patent case filings in October 2014 up from September 2014, but still down 33% from last October
The October total for patent case filings is 340 – a slight increase of 2.5% over September’s total of 331 cases filed. October of 2013, by contrast, saw 511 cases filed, leaving this year’s […]
A new study by MLex uses Lex Machina data to show that more and more district courts are granting attorneys fees requests:
Nearly six months after the US Supreme Court made it easier to award attorneys’ fees in “exceptional” patent cases, US district court judges are increasingly sanctioning parties for filing […]
Plaintiffs filed 329 new federal patent cases in September 2014, a 40% decrease from the 549 cases filed in September 2013.
After reaching a record high of 675 new cases filed in April 2014, filings over the last five months have tailed off significantly (see Figure 1).
Month-over-month comparisons of 2014 and […]
By Brian C. Howard, Legal Data Scientist & Director of Analytics Services
Over the last few years, the Eastern District of Texas and the District of Delaware have led the nation in the number of patent cases filed each year.
Fig. […]
By Brian Howard, Legal Data Scientist & Director of Analytics Services
This blog post takes a deeper dive into some of the data and conclusions published in Lex Machina’s 2013 Patent Litigation: Year in Review, more closely examining the increase in patent cases filed in 2013 and investigating the roles […]
As Dennis Crouch pointed out over at Patently-O, the release of an informally proposed amendment to the current patent reform bill that would set April 24 as a cutoff date for retroactive application of fee shifting provisions set off a surge of patent case […]