RPX 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...
Read full postSelect Public PAEs Thrive While Many Struggle
April 14, 2016
While finalizing our latest quarterly report on publicly traded patent assertion entities (PAEs), Unwired Planet—one of the 23 public PAEs we’ve been tracking—announced its intention to exit the IP licensing business. Public PAEs have...
Read full postOf Spikes and Means: Q1 2016 Litigation Data
April 5, 2016
The first quarter of 2016 is in the books, and no doubt the level of NPE litigation activity has dipped. Defendants added to NPE campaigns in Q1 of 2016 total 496, about half the number added during the same quarter in 2015 and in 2014. Tha...
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