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Patent litigations.

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Patent litigation filed per year

1986: 2 cases'861988: 1 case1990: 1 case'901992: 1 case1993: 1 case'941996: 3 cases1997: 2 cases1998: 3 cases'981999: 3 cases2000: 3 cases2001: 5 cases'022003: 10 cases2004: 4 cases2005: 13 cases2006: 15 cases'062007: 17 cases2008: 20 cases2009: 12 cases2010: 39 cases'102011: 36 cases2012: 68 cases2013: 110 cases2014: 95 cases'142015: 107 cases2016: 103 cases2017: 163 cases2018: 171 cases'182019: 198 cases2020: 226 cases2021: 254 cases2022: 358 cases'222023: 321 cases2024: 548 cases2025: 758 cases7582026: 333 cases'26
6,606 tracked cases by filing year.

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CasePatentsCourtFiledStatus
Apple Inc. v. U.S. International Trade Commission et al.2012-1338U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit—decided - affirmed-in-part, reversed-in-part, vacated-in-part, remanded
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. et al. v. Apple Inc.2015-2088U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit—denied
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. v. Apple Inc.15-777Supreme Court of the United States—decided
Apple v. SamsungU.S. International Trade Commission——
Untitled case1:17-cv-02421U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana—unknown
Untitled case26-1859U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit—on appeal
SmartPhone Technologies LLC v. Dell, Inc.6:12-cv-00154United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas——
SmartPhone Technologies LLC v. ZTE Corporation6:12-cv-00350United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas——
Untitled case6:12-cv-00291United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas——
NEC Corporation v. YI Technologies, Inc.2:24-cv-00722U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (E.D. Tex.)—pending
Weatherchem Corporation v. J.L. Clark, Inc.1:91-CV-35U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio (Judge Kathleen M. O'Malley)—affirmed in part, modified in part, vacated in part, remanded
Roche Products, Inc. v. Bolar Pharmaceutical Co., Inc.CV 83-4312U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York; originally U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey—reversed and remanded
Untitled case3:97-cv-00118U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California——
Affymetrix, Inc. v. PE Corporation (N.Y.) et al.U.S. District Court (district and division not specified in narrative)—decided (motion to dismiss denied)
PE Biosystems v. Affymetrix, Inc.U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware——
YesVideo, Inc. v. iMemories, Inc.2:15-cv-00809E.D. Tex.—unknown
YesVideo Incorporated v. IMR16 Incorporated2:16-cv-00865D. Ariz.—unknown
YesVideo, Inc. v. IMR16 Incorporated2:16-cv-00865U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona——
Dynamic Advances, LLC v. Apple Inc.1:12-cv-01579U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, Albany Division—related filing
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute v. Amazon.com, Inc.1:23-cv-00227Reported inconsistently as U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York—not confirmed