In 1897, Mark Twain ironically told a newspaper that reports of his death had been “greatly exaggerated”. NPEs might be feeling equally bemused today. While many observers have interpreted a decline in new NPE litigation in the latter half of 2014 as a death knell, recent data suggests the NPE business model is still very…
Read full postIt’s common sense that the cost of any litigation would increase the longer it runs. Particularly in patent disputes, it’s likewise obvious that certain events in litigation—claim construction, for example, in which key words or phrases in a patent claim are painstakingly scrutinized—are significant indicators of cost. In a new RPX study analyzing proprietary data from…
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For several years now, RPX has been building an increasingly comprehensive and detailed database on patent litigation. Our 2014 NPE Litigation Report—which builds on the data we published in our 2013 NPE Litigation Report and our 2012 NPE Activity Report—is a continuation of our effort to provide a uniquely clear and quantitative picture of NPE patent litigation.
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