E.D. Va. in Top 5 for Speed, Patentee Favorability
We blogged earlier about Prof. Mark Lemley's conclusions that the Eastern District of Virginia was a top venue for patentee plaintiffs (and for fastest resolution). Another patent litigation report -- this time by LegalMetric, an intellectual property case law research and analysis company -- has now come to similar conclusions.
The exact rankings appear to differ a bit, and LegalMetric's full data/methodology is not explained online (although we gathered and reported a bit of information about LegalMetric's methodology in a prior post). The company recently ranked the Eastern District of Virginia among the top five districts in two categories:
- Most Favorable to Patentee based on last ten years contested judgments for districts with at least 30 contested judgments, and
- Fastest based on last ten years of contested judgments for districts with at least 30 contested judgments.
The latter speed ranking comes as no surprise in the "Rocket Docket," but the continued ranking of the Eastern District among top patentee plaintiff venues may raise some eyebrows.
