For nearly 20 years, the Eastern District of Texas has built a reputation as a friendly venue when it comes to awarding compensatory damages in patent infringement litigation. A recent report by a legal analytics firm has confirmed what many lawyers already know: The Eastern District is king when it comes to returning IP judgment cash.
The report from Silicon Valley’s Lex Machina looked at nearly 14 years of patent filings across the country. The report stressed the unlikely chances of winning a compensatory damage recovery in a patent case; of the 36,629 patent cases filed and terminated from 2000 until 2013, only 708 of them (less than 2 percent) resulted in compensatory damage awards.
