The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts prepares extensive statistical reports on the types of cases filed and terminated in the district courts and courts of appeal, arranged by category of case.
For example, http://www.uscourts.gov/stats/june05/C02jun05.pdf gives the following data:
Calendar 2004 -- 2,663 copyright cases, 3,046 patent cases, and 3,580 trademark cases.
July 2004-June 2005 -- 5,445 copyright cases, 2,788 patent cases, and 3,576 trademark cases.
The big spike in copyright cases is likely due to file sharing and related Internet copyright lawsuits.
AIPLA and the ABA IP section probably summarize this data in their newsletters and give a narrative description of the trends. Received on Tue Feb 06 2007 - 00:45:00 GMT
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