IP litigation on all fronts

Parties involved in intellectual property disputes used to merely file suit in the US district courts, where the plaintiff rights holder could obtain an injunction against future sales of infringing products and damages for past sales of products. The process was relatively leisurely, with decisions rarely issuing in less than two years, and often in three to four years, and generally US-centric, with corresponding actions filed in Europe or Japan in only a small percentage of cases.