Patent lawyers overwhelmed the Eastern District of Texas last year by filing a record-breaking 2,591 new infringement cases in its U.S. District Courts. Yet few of them landed in the busy Sherman Division, where only ten percent of its docket is comprised of intellectual property disputes.
“Not neglected. Overlooked maybe,” said veteran Washington D.C. patent attorney Alan Fisch of the Sherman Division’s patent docket. “However you want to describe it, there are not a lot of patent cases going on in that courthouse.”
