Sentences with phrase «number of patent lawsuits»

Statistics show that the year 2015 saw the highest number of patent lawsuits.

This chart shows the number of patent lawsuits filed each month in the United States.

What explains the huge number of patent lawsuits filed there?

The number of patent lawsuits in the United States skyrocketed between 2010 and 2012, from around 3200 filings to more than 5000, according to the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.

Since 2011, we have seen a record number of patent lawsuits filed, and the average damages awarded have reached a new high.

While Bruce specializes in patent portfolio building for his clients, he also has substantial litigation experience, serving as lead counsel in a number of patent lawsuits.

Not exact matches

A report last month from the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that between 2007 and 2011 the «number of overall defendants in patent infringement lawsuits increased by about 129 percent.»

As the New York Times reported in late August, it may be easier for Apple to go after phone makers in lawsuits, because damages can be determined by the number of phones a company sold that were made using infringed patents.

Apple has filed another lawsuit on Samsung for similar infringement based on a number of Apple's patents.

Findings by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that a number of seismic streamer patents belonging to WesternGeco LLC were unpatentable and that inter partes review petitions filed in response to a pending patent infringement lawsuit filed by WesternGeco against Petroleum GeoServices, Inc. were not time barred have been upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal CiPatent Trial and Appeal Board that a number of seismic streamer patents belonging to WesternGeco LLC were unpatentable and that inter partes review petitions filed in response to a pending patent infringement lawsuit filed by WesternGeco against Petroleum GeoServices, Inc. were not time barred have been upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Cipatent infringement lawsuit filed by WesternGeco against Petroleum GeoServices, Inc. were not time barred have been upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

More worryingly for the industry, patent trolls have been buying up portfolios from companies such as Nokia and Nortel and are now filing an increasing number of lawsuits against auto manufacturers.

Relying on Lex Machina's data, the GAO's analysis of a representative sample of 500 lawsuits from 2007 to 2011 concluded that the number of overall defendants in patent infringement lawsuits increased by about 129 percent over this period.

But despite the increasing number of arguments and lawsuits, there's a lack of reliable, unbiased data on the patterns and trends about patent litigation in America.

In addition, GAO's detailed analysis of a representative sample of 500 lawsuits from 2007 to 2011 shows that the number of overall defendants in patent infringement lawsuits increased by about 129 percent over this period.

Some stakeholders GAO interviewed said that the increase in 2011 was most likely influenced by the anticipation of changes in the 2011 Leahy - Smith America Invents Act (AIA), which made several significant changes to the U.S. patent system, including limiting the number of defendants in a lawsuit, causing some plaintiffs that would have previously filed a single lawsuit with multiple defendants to break the lawsuit into multiple lawsuits.

From 2000 to 2010, the number of patent infringement lawsuits in the federal courts fluctuated slightly, and from 2010 to 2011, the number of such lawsuits increased by about a third.

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).

We believe that a reduction in the number of patents with transferrable offensive rights may reduce the number of offensive lawsuits that may be filed, particularly by non-practicing entities.

This leaves us with an untold number of bad patents, many of which represent 20 years of troublesome lawsuits, licensing fees, and stifled innovation.

The lawsuit seemed to claim that I was in violation of patent number 6,857,067, apparently for using source code provided to us by Google.

The lawsuit alleges that a number of BLU products are in violation of patents held by LG.

Since 2005, the number of patent troll lawsuits per year has skyrocketed — a four-fold increase to over 5,000 lawsuits every year.

According to the lawsuit, Facebook and a number of its services including Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger all make use of patent - protected technology created by BlackBerry, including displaying a count of unread messages on a notification bubble.

Since 2012, DDT sent demand letters to and initiated lawsuits against a number of real estate firms alleging that the firms» websites infringe U.S. Patent No. 6,529,908 («the «908 Patent») entitled «Web - Updated Database with Record Distribution by Email.»