Patexia Insight 65: Is ITC the Next Battle Ground?

A couple of weeks ago, we reported the quarterly numbers for patent litigation. To our surprise, we noticed a 22 percent jump in district court patent litigation in Q2 compared to Q1 of 2019 (Patexia Insight 64). This happened after several consecutive years of decline in patent litigation. Further conversations with in-house counsel at multiple corporations confirmed that the number of demand letters have also increased in the first half of this year. A couple of in-house IP counsel had...