Legal Trends

Reference line at 322 cases, representing January 2014 level.

In January, 2014, plaintiffs filed 322 new patent cases in U.S. district courts.

This total represents a sharp drop in total filings, both when compared to the prior month of December, 2013 (427) and […]

Although patent litigation has been on the rise over the past decade, the number of successful grants of attorneys fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285 has not tracked this rise, and remains low. Lower still are the number of successful grants based on litigation misconduct or frivolous, bad faith litigation, […]