Lex Machina Launches Legal Analytics for Bankruptcy Appeals in District Court
Lex Machina is pleased to announce the launch of our offering for Bankruptcy Appeals in District Court. With this launch, practitioners can, for the first time ever, get hard quantitative data on how parties, law firms, and judges perform on bankruptcy appeals. Practitioners, especially bankruptcy court specialists, facing an [...]
2017 Second Quarter Litigation Update
1,138 patent cases were filed in the second quarter of 2017, a 18% increase over number of cases filed in the first quarter of 2017. A similar increase from the first to second quarter has happened in each of the previous 4 years. Although the number of cases filed in the first quarter of 2017 was one of the lowest in the last 5 years, the first half of 2017 only trails 2016’s first half by 7%.
Lex Machina Launches Legal Analytics for Employment Litigation
As the next step in bringing Legal Analytics to more areas of the law, Lex Machina has expanded our coverage of employment cases pending January 1, 2009 through the present. Our employment module offers the same ease-of-use and intuitiveness as our other practice areas, but introduces new tags, findings, remedies [...]
Lex Machina Launches Legal Analytics for Commercial Litigation
Lex Machina is excited to add over 60,000 cases to our Legal Analytics platform with a new module for commercial litigation. Commercial litigation is the business mainstay of many firms, a concern for nearly any corporation, and a big step for Lex Machina towards making Legal Analytics available across the [...]
SCOTUS Decides TC Heartland Case
On Monday, May 22, 2017, the Supreme Court issued a slip opinion in the case TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group LLC (Dkt. No. 16-341). The court unanimously* held that, under 28 U.S.C. § 1400(b) (the statute governing venue in patent suits), a domestic corporation “resides” only in its [...]
2017 First Quarter Litigation Update
Lex Machina Q1 2017 Litigation Update Patent litigation District Court 938 patent cases were filed in the first quarter of 2017. This was the lowest per-quarter filings of any quarter since 2011 Q3 (although just barely - there were 963 cases filed in Q1 of 2016). From last year’s average [...]
2016 Fourth Quarter Litigation Update
Patent Litigation District Court In the final quarter of 2016, plaintiffs filed 1,140 patent cases, bringing the total for 2016 to 4,520 patent cases. The fourth quarter represents a slight increase over the third quarter’s 1,126 cases, but overall litigation in 2016 has declined by a moderate 22% from 2015 [...]
$2.54b Damages in Idenix Sets New Record
Last week on December 15, a jury in the awarded Idenix Pharmaceuticals LLC a record-setting $2.54 billion in damages against Gilead Sciences, Inc. (case no. 1:14-cv-0846 in the District of Delaware). The amount was based on a reasonable royalty theory (finding a 10% rate on a base of $25.4 billion). [...]
Lex Machina’s Random Acts of Kindness Challenge
In October, Lex Machina wrapped up its annual two-day company retreat. As a running tradition, Owen Byrd, Chief Evangelist & General Counsel, challenged the company with a community kindness outreach project, to make a difference with $100. The members of the Lex Machina team were divided into groups of four with [...]
Design Patent Litigation Update
Design patents, the kind at issue in the Apple-Samsung case now before the U.S. Supreme Court, are a small but important part of the patent litigation picture. Cases involving at least one design patent (a kind of patent that protect the appearance rather than the functionality of an invention), [...]
2016 Third Quarter Litigation Trends
Patent Litigation District Court In the third quarter of 2016, plaintiffs filed 1,127 patent cases. This total represents an decrease over Q2 (1,289 cases) of 12.6%, but is still higher than the Q1 2016 (960 cases). Looking at the months in the second second quarter more closely (Fig. 2), September [...]
Lex Machina Releases New Law Firms Comparator and Courts & Judges Comparator Apps
Lex Machina’s new Comparator Apps, launched earlier today, make it easier than ever before to analyze up to four different courts, judges, or law firms side-by-side, on a single page, and all within seconds. The Law Firms Comparator simplifies the business decision of which [...]