ST. LOUIS/EWORLDWIRE/Aug. 8, 2007 --- For districts with a significant number of judgments in patent cases, the district with the highest win rate in favor of patentees is the Eastern District of Texas (44%). The district with the lowest win rate is the Southern District of Ohio (6%).LegalMetric has completed two new reports - the Top 5 Most Favorable Patent Districts Report (comparing the District of Delaware, the Middle District of Florida, the Eastern District of New York, the Eastern District of Texas, and the Western District of Wisconsin), and the Top 5 Least Favorable Patent Districts Report (comparing the Southern District of California, the District of Maryland, the Southern District of Ohio, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and the Western District of Washington.
With information from the Top 5 Patent Reports, attorneys and clients can rationally plan their litigation and choose the best of these districts for their cases. Users can tell at a glance which districts tend to grant is positive motions and which do not. Easy to read charts show which courts are more likely to have trials in patent cases, and much more. A section on transfer motions gives real information about how likely the various courts are to transfer cases to another district. Comparisons of divisions within the districts include percentage of cases filed by division, case win rates by division, appeal affirmance rates by division, and average time to termination on the merits by division.
Five Top 5 Patent Reports are now available for use in marketing law firm services and managing their client expectations. The Top 5 Reports include the Most Popular, Fastest, Slowest, Most Favorable and Least Favorable Districts for patent cases. The Top 5 Patent Reports are offered as annual editions and are now available for an investment of $1895.00 each. All five are available for $7500.00.
View a sample report, visit 'http://www.legalmetric.com'.
LegalMetric is a data mining company specializing in collecting, analyzing and assembling federal case information into reports as litigation tools for attorneys and their clients. The company is based in St. Louis, Mo.
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