COVID-19 may have taken a big bite out of the economy, but it hasn’t slowed down patent infringement litigation.
Fueled by nonpracticing entities, district court filings for the first half of 2020 were up 16% over the previous six months. Most of the upturn came during the second quarter, leading to some speculation that investor reallocation of capital to alternative investments such as litigation funding might be boosting the activity.
And whereas Delaware led the way in 2019 with 28% of the 2019 filings, the Western District of Texas has now nosed ahead, with 21% of the filings this year to Delaware’s 19%.
