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Until recently, parties have not had good information about their district, judge, opponent or opposing counsel. Instead, their lawyers have relied on a speculative and often inaccurate mix of anecdote, personal experience and “common wisdom.” This has changed. Confluence Law Partners provides tactical intelligence based on the hard empirical data obtained from Lex Machina, a private venture spun out of Stanford’s IP Litigation Clearinghouse for every patent and other IP lawsuit filed since 2000 - more than 100,000 patent and other lawsuits in all - the Clearinghouse is expected to become the largest legal-empirical database in the United States. Furthermore, as part of Confluence’s “no overhead” costs policy, the expense incurred in accessing this data is not passed on to the client.
Lex Machina allows Confluence attorneys to timely search literally every single patent infringement case over the past 10 years by district, judge, order, case milestone, outcome and opposing parties and counsel, encompassing over 10 million docket entries.
The use of Lex Machina has already called into question the common wisdom that the Eastern District of Texas is the best place for patent owners to file their lawsuits. Based on the analysis of win-loss percentages, access to trial and time to resolution, Stanford Professor Mark Lemley reports in Where to File Your Patent Case that the Middle District of Florida is the best place for patent owners to file their lawsuits – the Eastern District is not even in the top five.