During final preparation for my Illinois State Bar Association program on "ADR in IP" I checked recent federal court statistics on trials for IP cases.  I was amazed.

We've all heard about the declining number of federal court trials overall.  For the period ending September 30, 2006, the percent of cases terminated during or after trial was down to 1.3%.

The figures on IP cases is even more astounding.  For the same period the number of IP cases terminated during or after trial were:

16 Trademark
23 Copyright
71 Patent

For the entire federal system!

Where have all the trials ...   more »