Chicago, Boston Get More Patent Suits Despite Overall Decline

Two federal courts dramatically defied a downward trend in new patent lawsuits from 2021 to 2022—and they aren’t in traditionally popular Texas or Delaware.

Patent litigation dipped 5.6% across the country and the drop off was steeper in the country’s busiest patent districts, even as case numbers jumped in some previously less-used venues.

Chicago’s Northern District of Illinois and the Boston-centered District of Massachusetts showed increases of 35.3% and 81.8%, respectively, according to Bloomberg Law data. That’s a stark contrast from the decline in the nation’s busiest two patent districts—the Western District of Texas and the District of Delaware, which ...