2015 Patent Data
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Patent Filings
From Data Visualization Center:
- Total Filings: 580,327
- RCE (Request for Continued Examination) Filings: 168,594
- Non-RCE Filings: 411,733
- Design Filings: 37,735
Patent Litigation
From LexMachina:
- Patent Case Filings: 5,820
- Cases Open: 3,003
- Cases Terminated: 2,817
- 44% of FY2015 case filings were through the Eastern District of Texas.
- 29% of FY2015 case filings were viewed by Judge James Rodney Gilstrap.
Patent Legislation
From Govtrack.us:
(114th Congressional Session)
- Total Unique Pieces of Legislation: 101
- House: 75
- House Simple: 0
- House Concurrent: 1 (Same as Senate Concurrent)
- Senate: 55
- Senate Simple: 0
- Senate Concurrent: 1 (Same as House Concurrent)
- House: 75
- Some pieces of legislation are under considerarion in both chambers. I have included repeats in subsets of "House" and "Senate", but NOT in "Unique Pieces of Legislation."
- "Simple" Resolutions affect only that particular chamber in which it is passed. Usually deal with more fluffy policy, such as designating a week in honor of small businesses.
- "Concurrent" Resolutions do not carry the force of law (unlike a joint bill) but must be approved by both chambers in identical form.
Top Patent Legislation
- PATENT Act (36% of enactment)
- STRONG Patents Act of 2015 (4% chance of enactment)
- Innovation Act (36% chance of enactment)
- Innovation Protection Act (5% chance of enactment)
- Targeting Rogue and Opaque Letters Act of 2015 (24% chance of enactment)
Not So Top Patent Legislation
- Demand Letter Transparency Act of 2015 (0% chance of enactment)
- End Anonymous Patents Act (0% chance of enactment)
- PARTS Act (0% enactment)
