美国智能终端诉讼趋势研究

Research on trends of American smart terminal litigation

美国智能终端诉讼仍保持上升趋势,在TCHeartland案后,NPE最多的诉讼地变成特拉华州地区法院,其次是德克萨斯东部地区法院。智能终端诉讼主要发起者依然是NPE。PTAB申请量暴增,已经成为被告应对专利诉讼纠纷的重要途径,发起PTAB申请的多为实体企业,被告多为NPE。智能终端涉诉专利中,上层技术领域的涉诉专利量最多。为应对上述情况,建议企业一方面提升自身知识产权保护、竞争和运用能力,另一方面提升对应NPE的策略。

US smart terminal litigation continues to rise.After the TC Heartland case,the most litigation venue for NPE became the Delaware District Court,followed by the EasternTexas District Court.The main initiator of SamrtTerminal litigation is still NPE.The surge in PTABfilings has become an important way for defendants to deal with patent litigation disputes.Most of the applications for PTABare entities,and the defendants are mostly NPEs.Amongthe patents involving smart terminals,the number of patents involved in the upper-level technical field is the largest.It is recommended that enterprises improve their intellectual property protection,competition and application capabilities on the one hand,and enhance the corresponding NPEstrategyon the other hand.