A Blog About Intellectual Property Litigation and the District of Delaware


Yesterday, the Court posted its 2026 Annual Report. There are a few easy highlights here.

Civil case filings in 2025 went up by 10%:

That increase seems to stem from more IP cases and more prisoner petitions:

Delaware continues to have one of the highest counts of patent cases per active judgeship:

Patent Cases per Judgeship
District Court

In the above chart, Delaware almost takes the lead, but EDTX has more overall patent cases. Of course, in recent years, NPE cases have trended towards TX—if there were a chart of competitor cases, which are much more work, I expect Delaware would easily take the lead.

The full report is embedded below. Enjoy!

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