Gene Lee was quoted in "PTAB Petition Fall Tied to Broad Litigation Trends," an article in Managing Intellectual Property, regarding the decrease in petitions to the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

Gene Lee, tells Managing IP that more than 80% of patent challenges at the board are being asserted in parallel district courts cases.

“That is a very high rate of correlation between those two types of proceedings, and it is worth mentioning because there has been a significant decline in district court patent infringement filings,” he says.

“That overall decline is one of the biggest drivers – it is only natural that a decrease in the district courts would lead to a corresponding fall at the PTAB.”