What “tracker” has to mean on a filing day
Annual NPE reports are useful in March. They are useless at 4 p.m. when nine complaints just hit E.D. Tex. under a licensing LLC you have not seen before.
Litigation Signal pulls new nature-of-suit 830 complaints in ten districts about every two hours, groups the same plaintiff on the same day, and shows counsel when RECAP has it. That is the tracker: the wave, not the year-end chart.
How a wave looks in the product
Illustrative of the pattern — live counts change through the day.
The label rules — on purpose
NPE candidate
Name only: licensing LLC, IP holdings, patent holdings, and similar stems. A flag for review, not a verdict.
NPE likely
Name pattern and a same-day burst at or above threshold. Volume without the name stays “burst,” not NPE.
Known operating companies are denylisted. Shared counsel across different plaintiff LLCs is a second signal in the drawer — not a silent auto-label.
Ten venues, not “all federal courts”
E.D. Texas, D. Delaware, N.D. California, C.D. California, W.D. Texas, N.D. Illinois, D. New Jersey, S.D. New York, N.D. Texas, S.D. Florida.
That is where most U.S. patent complaints still concentrate. We do not pretend to be a 94-district archive. History in the database is continuous since launch and growing; it is not a 20-year NPE encyclopedia.
Watch the plaintiff, the firm, or the wave
- Alert when a named plaintiff files again.
- Alert when a plaintiff-side firm appears on a new complaint.
- Alert on any same-day burst of two or more suits.
- Alert when a named company is the defendant — the defensive use of the same feed.
Alerts show in the product and go to email. Pair this page with patent litigation alerts if the job is “tell me my client was sued.”
Open the tracker. Named seats, no shared logins.
48-hour trial, no credit card. Annual = 10 months prepaid, 12 months of access.
1 seat
$6,490 / year. Additional seats require Studio or Team.
- Live NPE & burst feed
- Ten venues
- Up to 3 watchlist alerts
- CSV export
3 seats
$14,990 / year. Boutique practices that are not Solo.
- Everything in Solo
- 3 named users
- Shared workspace
- Watchlist alerts
5 seats
$24,990 / year. Extra seats $249, max 10 on this plan.
- Unlimited watchlist alerts
- Judge & firm analytics
- 5 included, up to 10
- Priority email support
15 seats
$64,990 / year. For 11+ seats. Extra seats $249.
- Everything in Team
- 15 named users
- Priority onboarding
- Quarterly review
No card. One named login. If the morning board is empty of NPEs, you will see that too — we do not invent a label to fill the page.
Short answers
Is every high-volume plaintiff an NPE?
No. ANDA campaigns and operating-company enforcement can file in bunches. Those stay unclassified or burst-only unless they fail the denylist and match a name pattern.
Do you track NPEs outside these ten districts?
Not yet. If a campaign files only in a court we do not cover, it will not appear. That limit is stated on purpose.
How is this different from RPX or a yearly NPE report?
Those products are deep history and entity research. This page is the same-day docket radar: who filed how many suits this morning, in which court, with which counsel when we have it.