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 month
	2013	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 year	6,090	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 IP’s 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
Uniloc’s total up further to 86.  

2016’s 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 August
Autumn Cloud	15
Uniloc	12
Mobile Telecommunications Technologies	11
Shipping and Transit	11
Codec Technologies	10
Simpson Performance Products	10
St Luke Technologies	10
Reflection Code	9
Rothschild Digital Confirmation	9
Blackbird Tech	8
International License Exchange of America	8
Vortex Pathway	8
Banertek	7
Bitro Group,	7
Horizon Pharma	7
Network Architecture Innovations	6
Novocrypt	6
Source: Docket Navigator

Top plaintiffs in cases filed Jan 1- Aug 31 2016
Shipping and Transit	101
Uniloc USA	80
Sportbrain Holdings	57
Guyzar	35
Verified Hiring	34
T-Rex Property	33
Hawk Technology Systems	33
Global Equity Management (SA)	31
Digital Audio Encoding Systems	29
Solocron Education	29
Source: Docket Navigator

Source: http://www.managingip.com/Blog/3584763/US-patent-litigation-update-filing-falls-in-August.html