John Pegram (John Pegram, Fish & Richardson, PC, New York, NY, USA) addressed the current issues in US litigation.Firstly, he reviewed what is going on in the district courts: civil cases filed in US district courts dropped 8% in FY 2017, which ended September 30, 2017 (a 17.7% decline in FY 2017 as compared with FY 2016, and a ~25% decline in FY 2017 as compared with FY 2013); about 75% inter partes reviews (IPRs) are associated with litigation, among which, many… [read post]