For the first time in years, intellectual property cases contributed no billion-dollar jury verdicts in 2013. In fact, IP recoveries decreased significantly both in number and in dollar amount when compared with 2012.
Nine IP verdicts collectively totaling just below $808.5 million made The National Law Journal affiliate VerdictSearch’s Top 100 Verdicts of 2013. That represented an 81.6 percent drop in value from 2012, when 16 verdicts totaled nearly $4.4 billion. Last year ended a three-year stretch in which at least one IP verdict each year exceeded $1 billion.
