Unified Patents recently released statistics on patent lawsuit filings.  The statistics show patent filings to be trending downwards fairly significantly from a peak in 2015.  Yet, the statistics also show that the individual inventor, asserting his or her own patent, is behind many patent suits.  Does that matter? 

Facebook ($FB) recently sued Blackberry ($BB) in the Northern District of California.  The move appears to be the latest salvo in the patent war heating up between the companies.  Yet, there are a few noteworthy aspects of Facebook’s suit.