The most active defendants in copyright lawsuits include department store chain Ross Stores, Inc. Textile firms are also increasing their copyright litigation activities four textile plaintiffs filed a combined 67 copyright cases in 2011, rising to 139 cases through the first nine months of 2016. Music publisher Warner-Tamerlane filed 462 copyright suits, followed by fashion designer Coach Services (441 cases) and music publisher Songs of Universal (438 cases). , which filed 1,124 copyright cases between 20, and music publisher Sony/ATV, which was second place with 623 cases during the survey period. Plaintiffs filing the most copyright cases in recent years include music copyright licensing firm Broadcast Music, Inc. Howard added that copyright cases were more evenly distributed among district courts receiving lower amounts of lawsuits, whereas some district courts received a sparse number of patent suits in recent years. District Court for the District of Delaware (D. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (E.D. вЂњIn the patent world, we see half of all litigation in two courts,вЂќ Howard said, referencing the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (S.D.N.Y.), which includes New York City, received 2,029 copyright suits during the survey period, which represents 11.7 percent of all copyright suits filed.Д«rian Howard, data scientist at Lex MachinaДЄs Lex Machina data scientist Brian Howard notes, this is a different kind of concentration of cases than is seen in the patent sector of intellectual property litigation. Given that Los Angeles is an industrial center for many sectors, including the music, publishing, textile and fashion industries filing the most copyright suits, this result isnвЂ™t too surprising. Cal.) received 4,412 copyright suits, just over a quarter of all copyright cases filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (C.D. From January 1st, 1999, to September 30th, 2016, the U.S. Venue statistics in the Lex Machina report show that copyright cases are filed in districts which include cities which are centers of commerce for the industries which file the most copyright suits. copyright lawsuit landscape, does a good job identifying the important whos, whats and wheres which are trending in U.S. This report, Lex MachinaвЂ™s second such major survey of the U.S. copyright cases from the beginning of 2009 up through the third quarter of 2016. In January, legal analytics firm Lex Machina released a copyright litigation report for 2016 which delivers findings on notable trends in U.S.

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