The number of patent suits filed in district courts continued to rise in 2013 and has more than doubled in the past five years, according to the first-ever patent litigation year in review published by the legal analytics company Lex Machina.
Using data from its popular legal analytics platform, Lex Machina published a report Tuesday that offers insight into judges, districts, patents, damages and filings. It focuses on major trends and developments in patent litigation during 2013.
Plaintiffs filed 6,092 new patent cases in the U.S. district courts last year, compared with 5,418 new cases filed in 2012, a 12.4 percent increase.
