Report Predicts Record Number of US Patent Lawsuits in 2015

Unified Patents, which claims to fight ‘patent trolls’, has published a report predicting that the annual number of patent cases filed at US district courts will be the highest ever by the end of 2015.


In its “1st Half 2015 Patent Dispute Report”, published on July 7, the company claimed that the number of lawsuits filed at US district courts in the first half of 2015-3,050-was up 11% compared to the same period last year. The figure also represents an increase of 35% compared to the second half of 2014, the report said. In total, the company estimated that the number of patent claims filed at district courts will surpass 6,000 by the end of this year, claiming this would be a record in an individual year.