Half-year data reveals how far Eastern District of Texas has fallen

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Half-year data reveals how far Eastern District of Texas has fallen

August 15 2018
US new patent cases by district H1 2018 168

The end of the Eastern District of Texas’s dominance in US patent case filing has been made clear this year, with the district’s 11.8% of cases filed in the first six months placing it well back from Delaware’s 19.9%

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