How to create and interpret the Plaintiff Litigation report
What is the Plaintiff Litigation Export Report?
The Litigation Export Report is an in-depth analysis of the litigation aspect of an Organisation Report. It can offer answers to relevant questions such as:
- Is there a risk and where?
- Who is suing the most?
- Who are they suing?
- Are they NPEs or not?
- What are the defendants’ profiles?
- What technologies are hot beds for litigation?
- What are the litigated patents?
How to create the Plaintiff Litigation Export Report
Start by creating an Organisation report. This can be a single or multiple organisation report.
1. Click 'Report Builder' to create a new report
2. Using the organisation search functionality, add portfolios into the report
3. When you're happy with your selection, click 'Next'. From here you can name your report and select your technology grouping options.
4. After running the report, click the 'Export Reports' icon in the top left hand corner of your report (below). Then click the 'Plaintiff Litigations' option to begin your excel download.
How to interpret the Plaintiff Litigation Export Report
The report is an Excel download containing four main tabs:
Summary Tab – shows the litigation analysis
Defendants Tab – looks at the defendants and the litigations initiated against them, in relation to the reference organisation or cohort
Litigations Tab – looks at the relevant litigation details
Patents Tab – looks at all the patents that have been asserted
Summary Tab
Won: court decided in favour of the selected organisation
Settled: the action was settled between the parties
Lost: court decided against the selected organisation
Active: case is on-going
Other: the outcome is unknown. Reasons for this include: multiple-defendant case involving different outcomes, case was transferred, dismissed, terminated or withdrawn.
The defendants chart shows the number of litigations associated with a defendant and the organisation (s) it was targeted by.
This will show you the number of started litigations per year helping you identify potential trends.
The technology clusters are based on patents asserted by Honeywell and the cohort. Notice that some are against an NPE.
Analysing the chart above, the total number of litigated patents in the first technology cluster is 34, they have been asserted a total of 54 times and the average assertions proportion against an NPE is 3%.
One of the most powerful charts in this report providing you with interesting and relevant information.
The next two charts focus on the activity in the technology clusters.
The pie chart presents the technology clusters, highlighting their proportion sizes, offering an instant insight into which are the most litigious technology areas.
The bars chart combines the litigated technology cluster proportion sizes and the start year of the litigation. For example in 2017 most of the litigations happened in the “ Bar code, scan pattern” cluster.
Defendant Tab
This Tab includes the defendant company information, number of litigations started against them, and how many of those where started by our cohort, if the cohort is an NPS and the result.
Cohort = the company /companies included in the initial parameters of the report.
Analysing the first row, from the total of 12 litigations where Novozymes is the defendant, 7 are started by our cohort.
Litigations Tab
This tab provides in depth information on the actual litigations such as: plaintiff, jurisdiction, defendant and hyperlink to the case details.
Patents Tab
This tab looks at all the patents that have been asserted and their relevant details such as current owner, technology area, family and status. The patent numbers are hyperlinked to the patent document.
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