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Title: Apple was the No. 1 target of patent lawsuits in 2013 Post by: HCK on May 16, 2014, 02:00:03 pm Apple was the No. 1 target of patent lawsuits in 2013
It was a record year for patent trolls. <p>FORTUNE -- Fun facts from Lex Machina's 2013 Patent Litigation Year in Review:</p> A record 6,092 new patent cases were filed in U.S. District Courts, up 12.4% from 2012 As usual, the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas got more than its share: 1,495, up 20%. Judge Rodney Gilstrap in the Eastern District was assigned 941 cases, more than double his nearest colleague. The top 10 plaintiffs were so-called patent monetization entities -- MORE (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/05/15/apple-patent-samsung-troll/)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tech.fortune.cnn.com&blog=8466345&post=142424&subd=fortunebrainstormtech&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortuneapple20/~4/kPO4oie1yTg" height="1" width="1"/> Source: Apple was the No. 1 target of patent lawsuits in 2013 (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/fortuneapple20/~3/kPO4oie1yTg/http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/05/15/apple-patent-samsung-troll/#commentshttp://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/05/15/apple-patent-samsung-troll/feed/atom/) |