Lex Machina Releases 2024 Patent Litigation Report
Menlo Park, CA — Lex Machina, a LexisNexis company, today releases its annual Patent Litigation Report. The report examines trends in patent litigation in federal district courts, appellate courts, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Focusing on the three-year period from 2021 to 2023, it surveys emerging trends in case filings, venues, judges, law firms, parties, timing metrics, case resolutions, findings, and damages. The report often focuses on different sets of data, e.g., filtering cases in order to provide analytics on general patent, high-volume plaintiff, ANDA, PTAB, and federal appellate cases. “Our data illuminates several intriguing recent trends in patent litigation,” said Elaine Chow, Lex Machina’s patent legal data expert and editor of the report. “In this report, we see a continuation of the recent decrease in general patent case filings, which is likely caused, at least in part, by the drop in cases filed by high-volume plaintiffs. We also see that the Western District of Texas in general, and Judge Albright in particular, both fell from the top of the case filing tables in 2023. These data-backed trends can be linked to external circumstances in the legal profession, such as judicial orders.” Findings from the report include: Lex Machina’s reports and software enable practitioners to devise data-driven litigation strategies. The metrics in this report can help readers decide who to pursue as clients, whether to file a particular motion, or when to settle (and for how much). This research supplements traditional legal research and anecdotal data for a competitive edge in court. Register here for a copy of the report: https://pages.lexmachina.com/2024-Patent-Report_LP.html Patent Litigation Report Webcast Lex Machina is hosting a webcast to discuss the report on February 8, 2024 at noon ET/9am PT with Michael Connelly (President of WIT Legal), Michael Flynn (Partner at Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell), Elaine Chow (Lex Machina’s Legal Data Expert in Patent Litigation), and Aria Nejad (Lex Machina’s in-house counsel). Register for the event or view a recording: https://pages.lexmachina.com/2024-Patent-Report-Webcast_LP.html About LexisNexis Legal & Professional About Lex MachinaPatent case filings continued the decreasing trend exhibited since 2021, likely driven by the drop in cases filed by high-volume plaintiffs over the same period of time, and case filings before Judge Albright and the Western District of Texas declined in 2023
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