Federal court data crunched in a recent report from the University of Nevada Las Vegas shows that intellectual property cases in 2025 actually ticked down. Trademark lawsuits in particular went from 4,235 filings in federal court to 3,679. About 73% of cases from January 2024 to August 2025 resulted in a settlement, according to the data set.

On September 10, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied mandamus in In re OnePlus Tech. (Shenzhen) Co., confirming that the plaintiff may bypass Article 5 of the Hague Convention on the Service of Process and serve the Chinese defendant through alternative service to attorneys located in California who had represented the defendant in the past.