Digging deeper into 2015 US district court patent litigation figures

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Digging deeper into 2015 US district court patent litigation figures

February 26 2016

A new report from Docket Navigator reviewing 2015 patent litigation concludes that – while the number of cases filed in US district courts increased – the number of infringement accusations and the complexity of individual cases is decreasing. It also revealed the entities that filed the most cases, the top defendants and the busiest law firms

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