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.
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 […]
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 […]
Patent LitigationIn 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 […]
Patent LitigationIn 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Patent LitigationPatent 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 […]
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, […]
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
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