In fact, 190 patent filed cases in a single day is the single highest number
of new patent cases filed on any day since the year 2000.
Plaintiffs filed 6,092
new patent cases in U.S. District Courts in 2013, compared to 5,418 new cases filed in 2012, a 12.4 % increase.
Overall, the Eastern District of Texas (E.D. Tex.) remained the top court for
new patent case filings in 2017 (866 cases) followed closely by the District of Delaware (D. Del.; 777 cases).
Figure 2 of the Year in Review Report graphs the filing of
new patent cases from 2005 - 2013, showing a dramatic increase in the number of cases filed per month after 2011:
Most new patent cases were filed by ten plaintiffs that purchase patents — not to commercialize them — but to file lawsuits against companies that make use of these so - called inventions.
Top findings:
New patent cases decline 10 % in 2017; Teva, Samsung and Apple were top defendants; 11 of top 15 plaintiffs were patent monetization entities
New patent case filings will likely be concentrated in Delaware and California, while a diffusion of patent filings across the 94 judicial districts is also possible.
The 2012 - 2013 rise and the America Invents Act (AIA) Figure 2 of the Year in Review Report graphs the filing
of new patent cases from 2005 - 2013, showing a dramatic increase in the number of cases filed per month after 2011: Fig.
The District of Delaware, while still the second most active district for patent cases, saw a 40 % decrease over the same period, with only 254
new patent cases filed so far in 2015.
But if there is
a new patent case, maybe in the US Supreme Court, we will ask if they have had a chance to read it.
The Eastern District of Texas accounted for an eye - popping 44 % of the 5,819
new patent cases in 2015, with one Texas Judge, Rodney Gilstrap, overseeing a staggering 80 % of those cases.
He was assigned 941
new patent cases in 2013 — no other judge had more than 400.
441
new patent cases were filed in December, rising 32 % from November 2014's total of 335.
Fig. 1: 2013 (in blue) compared to 2014 (in orange) patent case filings, monthly Fig. 2:
New patent case filings, yearly, 2007 - 2014 From a historical perspective, 2014 is the first year of decrease following about 4 years of increase in patent litigation case filings.
All three of
the new patent cases were filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California in San Diego.
This is hardly surprising, given that troll lawsuits now make up the majority of
new patent cases.
Unfortunately, it is also the court where over 44 % of this year's
new patent cases were filed: the Eastern District of Texas.