RPX Data Update: In Q1 2017, Familiar Plaintiffs Abound
April 3, 2017
In the first quarter of 2017, more than 850 defendants were added to patent litigation campaigns—just over 500 of them in NPE cases. The three most frequent NPE plaintiffs during Q1 each appeared among last year’s Top NPEs: IP Edge LL...
Read full postIPR: Not Just for Litigants
February 21, 2017
In just a few years, the inter partes review (IPR) petition has changed the game of patent litigation. This relatively new administrative procedure offers a faster, targeted process to challenge the validity of patents, as RPX has previou...
Read full postRPX Data Update: Patent Litigation Volatility Persists as Strategies Shift
January 3, 2017
At RPX we know well that significant events—whether judicial, legislative, economic, or technological—shape patent litigation and market activity more than the mere passage of time. But the turn of a new year is a good moment to take a ...
Read full postAs Patent Market Evolves, New Opportunity and Risk
October 24, 2016
Litigation trends offer some perspective on the patent market, but they don’t tell the whole story. Over the past two years, the America Invents Act and Alice have made their mark, but have proven to be neither silver bullet for infri...
Read full postQ3 2016 Sees Sustained Litigation Pace, Notable Verdicts
October 4, 2016
NPE litigation activity in Q3 2016 (about 700 defendants) slightly trailed Q2 (about 800 defendants), sustaining a pace well above the first-quarter lull. Again, we saw some volatility, this time marked by a modest spike early in the quarte...
Read full postAlice: Potent, Though Not Prolific—and Still Maturing
September 8, 2016
Two years after the Supreme Court’s Alice decision, we’re starting to get some idea of its limits as well as its overall impact so far. A recent Bloomberg Businessweek article cites RPX data indicating that Alice invalidity motion...
Read full postNPE Litigation Is Up in Q2 2016—and New Plaintiffs Emerge
June 30, 2016
In Q2 2016, NPE litigation increased by about 57% from the Q1 lull, continuing the recent pattern of high volatility in quarter-to-quarter litigation activity (see chart below). So far, the first half of 2016 reflects event-driven volatilit...
Read full postThe Landscape: Impact of Recent Supreme Court, Reform Activity on NPE Litigation
June 29, 2016
With Congress failing to vote on any patent reform bills before the summer recess and the Supreme Court’s term coming to a close, the NPE litigation landscape appears to be set through the rest of 2016 and into the new year. As in 2014 an...
Read full postIPRs: Balancing Effectiveness vs. Cost
June 17, 2016
Our continued study of inter partes review (IPR) as a potentially cost-effective alternative or adjunct to district court litigation shows that IPRs are relatively cheap per petition—but single-petition IPR strategies are not always su...
Read full post2015 Report: NPE Litigation, Patent Marketplace, and NPE Cost
May 16, 2016
Today RPX releases its latest reporting on the state of the patent ecosystem, with comprehensive data and analysis covering litigation activity and transactions, and high-level information from our annual study of the costs of NPE activit...
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