It is difficult at times to decipher the meaning behind all of the terms that are associated with patent law. Terms such as trademarks, copyrights, patents, and others are thrown together into similar articles making it quite tough to decipher what exactly are the nuances within the terms. In an article about different IP lawsuits it was reported in the last 4 months of 2012, there were 2,000 patent cases vs. 1,000 copyright cases and 1,000 trademark cases. That number is staggering, but through a comparison of these different cases, there are some pieces of information we can gleam about IP litigation. A lot of this comes back to the idea of location.
In areas where patent law is very popular, the other two types of cases are not. Patent litigation is also more concentrated in fewer areas than the other two - notably areas that we have discussed about including the Eastern District of Texas. This goes back to the fact that different appellate courts in a sense see almost exclusively patent cases or trademark/copyright cases. The lack of coordination of different IP systems within the US is staggering and it may very well be the reason why there are concentrations of courts that specialize in certain kinds of cases.
From: http://patentlyo.com/patent/2014/02/disjunction-litigation-copyright.html
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