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 analysis […]
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 is 3,122, […]
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).
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, […]
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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 […]
Guest post by Jean O’Grady, Esq., originally published on Dewey B Strategic
Today Lex Machina is announcing the launch of “Custom Insights” functionality which will add two new high-voltage analytics tools: Caselist Analyzer and Motion Metrics to the Lex Machina platform. These interactive tools will put customized competitive insights within reach of every subscriber. I found the […]
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 […]