This 2010 article [1] by (the highly-regarded) Stanford law professor Mark Lemley [2] is old, but might be helpful. Excerpt: "Notably, the Eastern District of

This 2010 article [1] by (the highly-regarded) Stanford law professor Mark Lemley [2] is old, but might be helpful. Excerpt: "Notably, the Eastern District of Texas, while it has a higher than average plaintiff win rate, is not in the top five districts. This 2015 PwC study [3] notes that from 1995 to 2014, "Interestingly, patent holder success rates for the top seven judges also tend to exceed the overall success rate, particularly in the Eastern District of Texas." The three E.D. Tex. judges listed in the chart (at page 20 of the PDF) had patent-owner win rates of 63%, 73%, and 64% respectively. [1] http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/Lemley.pdf http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/Lemley.pdf [2] https://law.stanford.edu/directory/mark-a-lemley/ https://law.stanford.edu/directory/mark-a-lemley/ [3] https://www.pwc.com/us/en/forensic-services/publications/assets/2015-pwc-patent-litigation-study.pdf https://www.pwc.com/us/en/forensic-services/publications/ass...