What IP teams are actually trying to find
Counsel and in-house IP leads are not searching for another docket archive. They are searching for a way to stop missing the complaint that names their client — or the wave that landed in E.D. Tex. this morning.
Email + in-app notice when a matching complaint is filed, not when someone remembers to run PACER.
Defendant watchlists. The question behind most defensive monitoring retainers.
Same-day multi-suit waves and name-pattern flags — with operating companies kept off the NPE label.
Venue-first monitoring. A large share of U.S. patent complaints still concentrate in a handful of districts.
What a useful alert contains
A docket number without context is a chore. A useful patent litigation alert answers four questions before you open PACER:
- Who sued whom — plaintiff and defendant, including co-plaintiffs on the same caption.
- Where and before whom — district, case number, judge when the court has assigned one.
- Whether it is a wave — same plaintiff, same day, multiple defendants.
- What the complaint is actually about — asserted patent numbers and a short allegation line, published only after they are confirmed.
Litigation Signal sends that packet in-product and to the inbox. Every row still links back to the public docket and every listed patent links to Google Patents.
Watchlists that match how firms actually work
Set the rule once. The next match shows on the dashboard and in email the same day we have the filing.
- A named company is sued (client, competitor, portfolio company).
- A named plaintiff files again.
- A named plaintiff-side firm appears on a new complaint.
- Any plaintiff files a same-day burst of two or more suits.
Solo plans include up to three watchlist alerts. Team and above are unlimited.
Coverage — and what this is not
We monitor new federal patent infringement complaints (nature of suit 830) in ten districts: 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, and S.D. Florida.
This is not a substitute for PACER, Docket Navigator, or Lex Machina. Those tools are archives and analytics over long case histories. We started collecting recently — about two months of continuous history, growing daily — and we do not cover every U.S. district. The job is early warning on new complaints in the venues that still produce most of the volume.
NPE signal without sloppy labels
NPE candidate is a name-pattern flag only (licensing LLC, IP holdings, and similar). NPE likely requires that pattern and same-day filing volume at or above our burst threshold. Known operating companies are denylisted. A burst by itself — including a pharma campaign — does not create an NPE label.
Questions counsel ask before they subscribe
Is this the same as a USPTO patent alert?
No. USPTO and Google-Patent watches tell you an application published. Patent litigation alerts tell you someone filed a district-court infringement complaint.
How fast do new suits show up?
We pull and review on a same-day basis for the ten venues above. Party names and case numbers are matched to PACER/CourtListener. Patent numbers and allegation text go out only after they are confirmed.
Can I export the feed?
Yes. Filter the live table and download CSV for the current view, or rely on watchlist email and skip the dashboard that day.
Do I need a credit card to try it?
No. The trial is 48 hours and does not require a card. Start here.