Delaware’s busiest patent judge last week unveiled changes to how he will manage a docket that has been flooded with litigation since the America Invents Act was passed in 2011. Intellectual property attorneys say the recommendations will improve efficiency, but are likely only a small drop in the bucket as Delaware patent litigation continues to increase at an overwhelming rate.
U.S. District Judge Leonard P. Stark of the District of Delaware last week outlined his plan to streamline his escalating patent docket to members of the Federal Bar Association’s Delaware chapter. Stark is the most active Delaware patent judge with 399 new cases filed in his court last year, according to data from Lex Machina, a Menlo Park, Calif., legal analytics and research company. He is the second busiest patent judge in the country behind U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the Eastern District of Texas, who had 941 new case filings last year, according to Lex Machina.
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