The Latest Patent Litigation Statistics
The number of patent lawsuits each month in the United States is tracked by Managing IP, a worldwide intellectual property site. Last month, suits were down compared to June and July. Statistics are provided in the article below grouping information by month, year and even plaintiff categories. Read the full piece:
US
district court patent litigation by month2013 2014 2015 2016 January 486 330 445 276 February 547 447 492 297 March 403 499 509 393 April 604 681 391 456 May 502 387 608 385 June 484 415 653 460 July 476 421 478 414 August 521 396 309 405 September 552 320 327 October 515 340 439 November 578 334 840 December 422 439 279 Total for
year6,090 5,009 5,770 3,086 The number of patent lawsuits filed in US district court
fell to 405 in August, according to figures taken from the
Docket Navigator database.This compares with 414 cases in June and the 2016 high of
460 cases in June.The August figure was above the average monthly figure for
the year so far of 386 cases, a result of a slow start to the
year for patent suit filing.This compares with full-year monthly average figures of 481
in 2015, 417 in 2014 and 508 in 2013.According to Managing IPs analysis of figures
taken from Docket Navigator, newcomer Autumn Cloud filed the
most cases in August, with 15.Serial filer Uniloc was the second-most-active filer. Its 12
cases pushed its 2016 total up to 80 by the end of August. A
further six cases filed on September 6 moved
Unilocs total up further to 86.2016s leading filer Shipping & Transit
filed 11 cases in August, pushing its year total into three
figures with 101 cases.Managing IP regularly tracks US patent litigation filing.
Subscribers and triallists can view our analysis of filing in
July
here and our analysis of the busiest companies and law
firms at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in the first six
months of this year
here.
Plaintiffs filing more than five cases in
AugustAutumn Cloud 15 Uniloc 12 Mobile
Telecommunications Technologies11 Shipping and
Transit11 Codec Technologies 10 Simpson Performance
Products10 St Luke
Technologies10 Reflection Code 9 Rothschild Digital
Confirmation9 Blackbird Tech 8 International License
Exchange of America8 Vortex Pathway 8 Banertek 7 Bitro Group, 7 Horizon Pharma 7 Network Architecture
Innovations6 Novocrypt 6 Source:
Docket Navigator
Top
plaintiffs in cases filed Jan 1- Aug 31
2016Shipping and
Transit101 Uniloc USA 80 Sportbrain Holdings 57 Guyzar 35 Verified Hiring 34 T-Rex Property 33 Hawk Technology
Systems33 Global Equity Management
(SA)31 Digital Audio Encoding
Systems29 Solocron Education 29 Source:
Docket Navigator
Source: http://www.managingip.com/Blog/3584763/US-patent-litigation-update-filing-falls-in-August.html