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Oct. 9, 2015

Lex Machina: Q3 2015 IP Filing Trends – Patent Litigation, by Brian Howard

This post originally appeared in Lex Machina on October 9, 2015.


Patent litigation in the U.S. district courts dropped in the third quarter of 2015:  only 1,119 cases were filed in Q3, a 33% drop from the record-setting 1,665 cases filed in the second quarter.

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Compared to previous years, each through its third quarter, 2015’s patent case filings represents an increase from 2014 but do not quite reach the levels seen in 2013.

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