Companies in 2014 spent more than $12.2 billion on legal costs associated with nonpracticing entity (NPE) litigation, only slightly less than the $12.5 billion spent in 2013, according to RPX Corp.’s third annual “NPE Cost Report.”
NPE plaintiffs sued approximately 2,000 companies in a total of more than 3,600 lawsuits during 2014, the report said.
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