Legal Analytics Tour Highlights from the Bay Area and Chicago
Owen Byrd, Lex Machina’s Chief Evangelist and General Counsel, and the Lex Machina team had a great time speaking with our customers as well as new and old friends at the Bay Area and Chicago Legal Analytics Luncheons this month. During the luncheons, Owen presented trends and insights on patent, [...]
Lex Machina Launches Securities Litigation Analytics
Lex Machina is proud to announce that our Legal Analytics platform is now extended to securities litigation. For the first time, practitioners in this area now have the ability to analyze legal data, helping them to win clients and cases. From showcasing experience with judges and districts in client pitches [...]
2016 Second Quarter IP Litigation Trends
Patent Litigation District Court In the second quarter of 2016, plaintiffs filed 1,282 patent cases. This total represents an increase over Q1 (958 cases) of 33%, but remains below the 2015 average of 1456 cases per quarter. Looking at the second quarter more closely (Fig. 2), more than 450 [...]
2016 First Quarter IP Litigation Trends
Patent Litigation District Court In the first quarter of 2016, 955 patent cases were filed. This number represents a decline from the level of litigation seen over the last few years - a quarterly low not seen since 2011. Looking at the quarter more granularly (Fig. 2), shows that [...]
Announcing the Patent Litigation Year in Review 2015
Lex Machina is proud to announce our third annual Patent Litigation Year in Review. This blog post looks closely at some of the key case filing and jurisdictional figures included in the report. For a complete copy of the report, please click here. Fig. 1: New cases filed, [...]
Researching Attorneys in PACER: a Comparison with Lex Machina
Lex Machina is proud to introduce its new Attorney Data Engine. Leveraging Lex Machina’s experience with natural language processing techniques, this feature processes docket text and the signature blocks of individual case documents to create a level of detail never before possible. These attorney data improvements are essential in [...]
Lex Machina 2015 End-of-Year Trends
Patent Litigation District Court Patent litigation in U.S. district courts grew in 2015 with 5,830 patent cases filed, a 15.0% rise from 2014 (5,070 cases). Except for 2013, which remains the high-water year for patent litigation (6,114 cases), 2015 surpassed all other previous years. Fig. 1: Patent cases filed, 2009-2015 [...]
Spike in Patent Case Filings Corresponding to End of Form 18
Lex Machina’s data shows a spike in case filings on November 30, 2015, corresponding to a rule change that eliminates Form 18, the form often used to plead direct infringement claims in patent cases. On that day, a record 259 patent cases were filed. The change, recommended by the Federal [...]
Q3 2015 IP Filing Trends
Patent Litigation Patent litigation in the U.S. district courts dropped in the third quarter of 2015: only 1,119 cases were filed in Q3, a 33% drop from the record-setting 1,665 cases filed in the second quarter. Fig. 1: Patent cases filed, 2012-2015 Compared to previous years, each through its [...]
Lex Machina Publishes Copyright Litigation Report
Lex Machina is pleased to announce the publication today of the first-ever comprehensive study of U.S. copyright litigation. The Lex Machina Copyright Litigation Report breaks down the thousands of copyright cases filed in the last 5 years to showcase how this data can be used to inform litigation strategy: from detailed [...]
2015 First Half Patent Case Filing Trends
2015 First Half Patent Case Filing Trends Patent case filings rose sharply in May (607 cases) and June (654 cases) of 2015, leaving the total for the Q2 2015 as the highest of any quarter yet observed (1,656 cases, as shown in Figure 2 below). The H1 total for 2015 [...]
Spring 2015 Patent Case Filing Trends
Patent case filings have been generally higher in the first five months of 2015 than in the last 8 months of 2014. May of 2015 had the most patent cases filed on any month so far this year (606 cases). Fig 1: Patent cases filed Jan 2014 through May 2015 [...]