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September 2, 2008
Down with the Docket
With
its natural panache of rip and snort for the court, the Statistics Division for
the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts released its annual report: "Judicial
Business of the United States Courts." Using the hoary Roma
system, the latest stats run in a calendar year skewed to September 2007. 2,896 patent
complaints in 2007, up a 2.3% bit from 2006 (2,830), with 250 filed in the
Eastern District of Texas. 2004 was the bumper crop, at 3,075. 408 patent suits
celebrated 3 years on the docket in 2007, up from 353 in 2006. 34 USPTO BPAI
decisions pending appeal before the CAFC, down from 51 the previous year. The
reversal rates on appeal ran less than 20% in 2007, both from district court and
BPAI, quite a dip from earlier times.
The panache and Roma bits were, of course, literary license to moisten the otherwise desert dry.
Posted by Patent Hawk at September 2, 2008 1:17 PM | Litigation