Germany cleans up in European patent litigation
According to statistics on European litigation exclusively revealed by Managing IP this week, German
courts have been wiping up European patent litigation since 2015.
The data, provided
by Darts-IP, shows that Germany took in 3,692 cases between 2015 and 2019,
compared to 673 in Italy, 503 in France, 492 in the Netherlands and 430 in the
UK, the next four most popular countries for European patent litigation.
German courts also featured
the most frequently in the list of the top 10 most popular European courts for
patent cases, with the Düsseldorf Regional Court coming in first place, the Munich
Regional Court third, the Mannheim Regional Court fourth and the Hamburg