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That's more than 70 times the average number of patent cases heard in other federal judicial districts.

However, since 2009, the CAGR of the number of patent cases filed has been 24 percent, or almost three times the growth over the entire period.»

These changes to the joinder rules are responsible for much of the rise in the number of patent cases since 2011.

As a metric for the business of litigation, the number of patent cases filed is a basic indicator.

«Judges and lawyers from the Eastern District of Texas are battling back at legislation partially aimed at curtailing the inordinate number of patent cases argued in the region.

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.

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.

Between 2012 and 2013, the number of patent cases filed per year increased by about 670 cases - a -LSB-...]

That's the quarter in which the AIA was enacted, increasing the number of patent cases filed by plaintiffs

Some have used the growing number of patent cases to

Check out the chart below for an idea of how the number of patent cases have increased in the last eight years:

Not exact matches

Samsung ended up losing the court case and was order to pay just over $ 1 Billion for a number of different patent infringements.

Lex Machina reports that 316 ANDA cases were filed in 2016 compared to 468 in 2015; number of inter partes review petitions filed on Orange Book patents has declined since 2015.

Tafas: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has agreed to rehear en banc Tafas v. Doll, a major patent case which could «restrict sharply the number of continuations, claims, and requests for continued examination that patent applicants may file,» the National Law Journal's Marcia Coyle reports.

The Alice case seems to have set the precedent for invalidating a number of software / internet patents.

The number of patents granted has a compound average growth rate of 3.8 percent since 1991 — about two - thirds the growth rate of new case filings of patent infringement.

According to The New York Times «In recent years, a single judge based in Marshall Texas oversaw about a quarter of all patent cases nationwide, more than the number handled by all federal judges in California, Florida and New York combined.»

He has been involved successfully in a number of high profile patent, design and trade mark cases.

They track a variety of characteristics in order to estimate patent litigation costs in each case, including the amount of time taken by each case through to final disposition and the number of documents filed by all the parties in each case.

The ruling will limit forum shopping and greatly reduce the number of cases filed in the Eastern District of Texas, which is perceived as the most favorable district for plaintiffs bringing patent claims.

Apple wanted to ensure that summary judgment could result in further narrowing with respect to the number of different patents - in - suit, presumably because it expects to be more successful with its summary judgment (SJ) motions than Samsung (which was the case last year).

Our attorneys represented plaintiff EazyPower Tool Corporation in a number of patent infringement and trade dress infringement cases in the Northern District of Illinois involving a tool extension shaft.

Even during this week, the slowest and calmest one of the year, some judges and lawyers are working on a number of smartphone patent cases.

Other advances in law have come with search engines such as Lexmachina, which searches through a small number of databases to predict the outcome of patent cases.

• Mark A. Cantor (IP Litigation Category)-- president, registered patent attorney, professional engineer and one of the firm «s five founders — has handled and tried litigation cases relating to patents, trademarks, trade secrets and copyrights in a number of national and international forums.

Peter has also acted as lead counsel in a number of international patent litigation cases brought simultaneously in European and non-European jurisdictions.

Excerpted charts from the report: Figure 7: Total patent cases filed by year Figure 13: Word cloud of trade names, sized by number of cases and colored by number of asserted patents (omitting tradenames with less -LSB-...]

Given the thousands of new cases filed, these numbers confirm the overwhelming importance of settlement negotiations in patent cases, and would even suggest that trial decisions might almost be an afterthought for those seeking infringement damages.

A significant portion of his practice relates to complex cases that involve the interface of intellectual property and antitrust, especially in relation to standard essential patents and he has been involved in a significant number of the leading cases in that area.

Figure 13: Word cloud of trade names, sized by number of cases and colored by number of asserted patents (omitting tradenames with less than 3 cases)

The case presents a number of intriguing issues, among them the meaning of Article X, section 4 of the California Constitution and its application, if any, to lands for which title is derived from a provisional Mexican land grant confirmed by a federal patent issued in the 19th century.

Excerpted charts from the report: Figure 7: Total patent cases filed by year Figure 13: Word cloud of trade names, sized by number of cases and colored by number of asserted patents (omitting tradenames with less than 3 cases)

2016's first quarter had the least number of patent infringement cases since the third quarter of 2011.

The first quarter was also a trough for patent infringement cases after last November's massive number of 847 patent cases, just more than 100 cases less than the entire docket for this year's first quarter.

Pain relief med Oxycontin has the largest number of ANDA litigation cases; testosterone and metformin hydrochloride were the leading ingredients when it came to patent enforcement.

A second spike, immediately prior to the effective date of the AIA in late 2011, correlates with patent holders» last chance to sue large numbers of defendants in a single case.

Indeed, while district courts invalidated more than double the number of patents under § 101 in the second half of 2014 than in the entire previous year, those decisions represent a very small number of cases relative to the volume of litigation in the system.

In Figure 20 (Plaintiffs with Most Patents Asserted in Cases Open during 2013) of the 2013 Year in Review, many were surprised by the number 1 plaintiff, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson («LM Ericsson»).

The Dutch appeal court recently ruled (case number 200.141.812 / 01 / 17-2-2015) that the European Patent Organisation (EPO) violated workers» labour rights deriving from the EU Treaties and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.

Some of our notable entertainment and media attorneys are: John Quinn, General Counsel of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who has also represented entertainment and media clients in a number of high profile cases; Kathleen Sullivan, the former Dean of Stanford Law School, First Amendment scholar, and nationally renowned appellate advocate, who heads the firm's appellate practice group; Bob Raskopf, an expert in the sports, entertainment and media bars in New York, who is perhaps best known for his work on behalf of professional sports leagues and teams, newspapers and publishers; Claude Stern, who has represented a broad array of leading software developers, videogame manufacturers, online publishers and other media clients in all forms of intellectual property litigation, including copyright, patent, trade secret, trademark, and licensing disputes; Bruce Van Dalsem, who has tried and resolved disputes for studios, producers and performing artists in the film, television, music and finance businesses, securing a top five verdict in California based on the misappropriation of a film library; Gary Gans, an expert litigator in motion picture financing, production and distribution disputes, as well as copyright and idea theft cases, who has been named in 2012 by The Hollywood Reporter as one of America's «Top Entertainment Attorneys;» Jeff McFarland, who has litigated entertainment related cases for more than 20 years, including cases involving motion picture and television series profits, video game licenses, idea theft and the «seven year rule;» and Michael Williams, who represents a satellite exhibitor and other media clients in trademark, copyright, patent, antitrust and other commercial litigation.

Although only a few weeks have elapsed since the rule changes, Judge Stark's new patent procedures have so far coincided with a decline in the number of cases filed.

So cases involving design patents constitute a small percentage of patent litigation compared to the number of cases involving only utility patents (historically, just under 10 % and declining to less than 5 % in 2012 and 2013).

As an aside, the enormous 2007 spike, more clear in the month - by - month view of Figure 8, was driven by the large number of asserted patents per case (and the large number of cases) in the Ronald A. Katz litigation.

995 patent cases were filed in the third quarter of 2017, a 12.3 % decrease from the number of cases filed in last quarter.

According to research firm United Patents, holding companies like VirnetX filed 66.9 percent of patent lawsuits in the United States in 2015 alone, and the Eastern District of Texas handled a disproportionate number of those cases — 44 percent (and over 400 alone last November).

There's hope on the horizon — a petition currently before the Federal Circuit aims to reduce the number of cases in the Eastern District's jurisdiction — but until bogus patent enforcement becomes significantly more challenging or expensive, patent holding firms will no doubt continue to litigate.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Consumers Union, and Public Knowledge have joined forces and filed an amicus brief (PDF) in a pending Supreme Court case that could help set limits on the number of times in a single supply chain that a patent holder can profit from its patents.

Because troll cases are often built upon a rocky foundation (and most of them, if played out, end with the troll losing), this upfront cost would effectively curtail the number of patent troll cases.

The Eastern District of Texas is still number one for patent cases.