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Patent litigations contents provided by PatentPia GoldenCompass are based on US district courts (to be expanded).
Patent litigations are arguably the sharpest battlegrounds in the patent world. As a result, the realities of litigation are extremely diverse.
Multiple patents can be used in one patent litigation. Therefore, when there are multiple lawsuits, the number of lawsuits and the No. of patents used in the lawsuits should be counted separately.
In addition, there are often more than one plaintiff or defendant involved in a single litigation. The person filing the lawsuit is called the plaintiff, and the other party is called the defendant. Therefore, when there are multiple lawsuits, the No. of plaintiff litigations and the No. of defendant litigations must be counted separately.
On the other hand, if you have an exclusive right to practice not only your own patents in possession, but also the patents of others, you can also file a lawsuit based on the exclusive right to practice. In this case, the plaintiff litigant may not be the patent owner. In addition, you can also file a confirmation lawsuit for patents in possession of others. In this case, you will be the defendant litigant and the patent owner. Therefore, the No. of litigation-involving patents in possession or the No. of patents in possession that are used in litigation is counted independently of the plaintiff/defendant of the litigation.
Patent rights are property rights and therefore subject to assignment, etc. They can be assigned before, during, or after litigation. Therefore, for a given company/organization, the No. of litigation-involving patents in possession or the No. of patents used in litigation is limited to the patent set held by the company/organization as of today as the current right holder. Therefore, if a particular patent is assigned to a specific company/organization after it has been used in litigation, even if the litigation was filed in the past and had nothing to do with the specific company/organization (neither as a plaintiff nor as a defendant), the company/organization still owns the patent today, so the No. of litigation-involving patents in possession or No. of patents used in litigation will include the litigation filed in the past.
Non-exclusively, the plaintiff in a lawsuit determines the court in which the lawsuit is litigated. However, if a lawsuit is transferred (changed courts) due to consolidation (multiple lawsuits are combined), etc., the plaintiff may not be the one who determines the court where the lawsuit is filed.