The number of campaign defendants added to patent litigation matters so far in 2020 has pushed past 2,000. While there is no perfect measure of volume of patent litigation, surpassing that threshold before the half-year point does suggest—given that 2017, 2018, and 2019 ended with approximately 3.6K, 3.4K, and 3.6K campaign defendants added, respectively—that one year-end theme for 2020 may be a rise in US patent litigation.
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