Patent Litigation Venues Revisited

Patent Litigation Venues RevisitedThe conventional wisdom: we have all heard it (and probably repeated it). When the topic is patent litigation venues, the raw numbers clearly point to a few well-known and oft cited heavyweights: Eastern District of Texas; Northern and Central Districts of California; Delaware. The top 10 for 2007 filings:RankDistrictCases1E.D. Texas3712C.D. California3383D. New Jersey2034D. Delaware2035N.D. Illinois1436N.D. California1407S.D. New York1088S.D. Florida769S.D. California69t10D. Massachusetts63t10M.D. Florida63But does a simple count tell the whole story. Or, as Josh might ask, is there another way of keeping score—a Stableford system for patent infringement filings that brings some other venues to the fore?Updated Table: Thanks to an eagle-eyed reader, I lost the N.D. California in the Table below during the migration from scratch pad to blog. I highlighted in blue the changes from the prior table. I left W.D. New York on at #11 since it seemed cruel to drop it entirely.Continue reading "Patent Litigation Venues Revisited" »