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Fifteenth Anniversary Update: Annotated Local Patent Rules for the Northern District of Illinois

Almost 15 years ago, in an effort to create greater predictability for patent litigation in the Northern District of Illinois, the District enacted Local Patent Rules (“LPR”).1 This annotated version of the LPRs is released...more

Cutting Through the Redline: What Companies Need to Know About Proposed Amendments for Federal Circuit Arguments

On April 24, 2020, the Federal Circuit announced a set of proposed amendments to its Local Rules that, if adopted, will go into effect July 1, 2020. Although most of the proposed changes are stylistic or concern particular...more

Tenth Anniversary Update: Annotated Local Patent Rules for the Northern District of Illinois

Ten years ago, in an effort to create greater predictability for patent litigation in the Northern District of Illinois, the District enacted Local Patent Rules ("LPR") This annotated version of the LPRs is released in honor...more

2018 Update: Annotated Local Patent Rules for the Northern District of Illinois

In an effort to create greater predictability for patent litigation in the Northern District of Illinois, the District enacted Local Patent Rules ("LPR") effective as of October 1, 2009. This annotated version of the LPRs...more

En Banc Federal Circuit Majority Rules Time-Bar Determinations By PTAB Are Appealable

In yesterday’s en banc decision in Wi-Fi One v. Broadcom Corp., Nos. 15-1944, -1945 & -1946 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 8, 2018), the en banc Federal Circuit addressed issues regarding judicial review of the PTAB’s time-bar...more

Burden of Proving Unpatentability of Amended Claims Placed on IPR Petitioners

In an en banc decision, the Federal Circuit in Aqua Products, Inc. v. Matal addressed the question of who bears the burden of proving that claims amended during inter partes review ("IPR") proceedings are or are not...more

The District of Delaware Announces New Procedures for Assigning Civil Cases

On May 26, 2017, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware announced new procedures for assigning cases and handling case-dispositive issues....more

U.S. Supreme Court Addresses Scope of Patent Venue

In TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC, the U.S. Supreme Court resolved where a domestic corporation "resides" for purposes of the patent venue statute. The Court narrowed the meaning of "resides" under 28 U.S.C....more

Are Inter Partes Review Proceedings Constitutional? The Federal Circuit Is Not Yet Ready To Decide

On May 11, 2017, with six of its twelve active judges authoring or joining separate opinions, the Federal Circuit denied a petition for an initial hearing en banc which asked the full Court to address the question “whether a...more

Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: Federal Circuit Interprets AIA's On-Sale Bar

For more than 60 years, Section 102(b) of the Patent Act precluded patentability when the invention was "in public use or on sale in this country [for] more than one year" before the filing of a patent application. That...more

Supreme Court Curbs Laches as a Defense in Patent Cases

In SCA Hygiene Products v. First Quality Baby Products, decided on March 21, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court significantly reduced the role of the laches defense in patent actions: "Laches cannot be interposed as a defense...more

Supreme Court Addresses Scope of Patent Infringement Under Section 271(f)(1)

Section 271(f)(1) of the Patent Act provides that a party infringes a patent claim when it "supplies or causes to be supplied in or from the United States all or a substantial portion of the components of a patented invention...more

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