Intellectual Property
Patent, copyright, trademark, and trade-secret suits.
319,995 federal civil cases in this category. Across all of them:
- Dismissed45.4%
- Settled29.6%
- Plaintiff win12.5%
- Defendant win3.3%
- Other3.1%
- Transferred2.9%
- Mixed1.4%
- Decided — other1.3%
- Remanded0.5%
- Affirmed0%
- Denied0%
By claim type
- Trademark109,450 cases · 25,916 reached a judgment75.7%plaintiff win
- Copyright105,818 cases · 19,551 reached a judgment73.6%plaintiff win
- Patent102,898 cases · 13,446 reached a judgment43%plaintiff win
- Patent Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA)1,357 cases · 221 reached a judgment47.1%plaintiff win
- Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA)472 cases · 6 reached a judgmentsmall sample
Source: FJC Integrated Database (public domain), via CourtListener — federal civil cases filed and terminated, 1988–present. Figures are descriptive statistics about how cases of a given type have closed in a given court. They describe the historical record — not a prediction or assessment of any specific case. Not legal advice.