Lex Machina releases Hatch-Waxman / ANDA Litigation Report
Featuring breakdowns of the top jurisdictions and judges, a comparison of ANDA case filings and outcomes with data from non-ANDA patent cases, breakthrough findings on patent age and expiration, as well as other charts and figures drawn from Lex Machina’s patent litigation database featuring integrated Orange […]
A new study by MLex uses Lex Machina data to show that more and more district courts are granting attorneys fees requests:
Nearly six months after the US Supreme Court made it easier to award attorneys’ fees in “exceptional” patent cases, US district court judges are increasingly sanctioning parties for filing […]
Understanding Medians (and Averages)
Many of Lex Machina’s new Analytics pages, public reports, and services engagement reports use median figures as a way to help summarize data, showing, for example, the time-to-trial for a particular judge as a median number.
This post explains what a median is, how a […]
The world of U.S. patent litigation has changed dramatically in the last five years: total patent cases filed in district courts have more than doubled since 2008, the American Invents Act was passed in 2011 and took effect in 2012, and cases such as Apple-Samsung have captured headlines with eye-popping damages awards for patent infringement […]
Plaintiffs filed 329 new federal patent cases in September 2014, a 40% decrease from the 549 cases filed in September 2013.
After reaching a record high of 675 new cases filed in April 2014, filings over the last five months have tailed off significantly (see Figure 1).
Month-over-month comparisons of 2014 and […]
By Brian C. Howard, Legal Data Scientist & Director of Analytics Services
Over the last few years, the Eastern District of Texas and the District of Delaware have led the nation in the number of patent cases filed each year.
Fig. […]
By Brian Howard, Legal Data Scientist & Director of Analytics Services
This blog post takes a deeper dive into some of the data and conclusions published in Lex Machina’s 2013 Patent Litigation: Year in Review, more closely examining the increase in patent cases filed in 2013 and investigating the roles […]
In this paper we… evaluate all substantive decisions rendered by any court in every patent case filed in 2008 and 2009 – decisions made between 2009 and 2013. We consider not just patent validity but also infringement and unenforceability. Moreover, we relate the outcomes of those cases to a host of […]
From Silicon Valley to the Supreme Court, patents have become an inescapable part of the corporate and political landscapes in America. This year alone, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the highest proportion of IP cases in history. The patent case load of the district courts has […]
As Dennis Crouch pointed out over at Patently-O, the release of an informally proposed amendment to the current patent reform bill that would set April 24 as a cutoff date for retroactive application of fee shifting provisions set off a surge of patent case […]