Federal Judiciary

Eastern District trial success stats updated - post on Gametime IP

By Michael C. Smith

Just read this interesting post on the Gametime IP blog about Eastern District trial success stats from the recent Price Waterhouse Coopers study.  It has some useful metrics on the plaintiff's win rate at trial, noting that the win rate from 1995 forward was at 83% in 2006, but declined to 72% the next year (2007 - the annus horribilis for plaintiffs that's I have posted on previously) then to 67% two years later.  That's not the per-year number - that's the cumulative number even including the 2001-2006 string of plaintiff wins, so the cumulative win rate dropped sixteen points in three years, and according to the post the overall win rate has remained steady the last three years at about 55%.  That's ballpark what I had calculated, but since I'm not so good with math, it was nice to have an accounting outfit confirm it.

Full post as published by Eastern District of Texas Federal Court Practice on January 13, 2011 (boomark / email).