In the past few years, how many patent cases has your company faced? Across the United States, that number has both risen and fallen within this time frame. According to an informative article in Today’s General Counsel, there are several developments to watch for this
It was a record-setting patent infringement lawsuit-filing month in November 2015. Of the 851 patent suits filed in federal courts, 467 were submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. According to legal research conducted by Lex Machina, per The Dallas
As of Dec. 1, amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 1, 4, 16, 26, 30, 31, 33, 34, 37, 55 and an abrogation of Rule 84 and the Appendix of Forms take effect. The “most significant amendments” are to the discovery rules, particularly
As Judge Paul S. Grewal stated in his order re: motion to compel in Venture Corporation LTD, et al., v. James P. Barrett, while many law professionals may not be familiar with the more obscure Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (ex: Stenographic Transcript as Evidence),
On April 10 and 11, the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules met in Portland, Ore., to review proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and make key final decisions. Of particular significance was the work around Rule 37(e), also known as the “safe
A two-week-late response to requests for production, insufficient and incomplete produced documents and the possibility of a court-imposed e-discovery vendor compose this too-little-production-too-late case of Logtale, Ltd. v. IKOR, Inc. The 2011 lawsuit began when Logtale, Inc., a shareholder in IKOR, Inc., a pharmaceutical company
This past September, while the bearded ones were marching toward a World Series title, the Massachusetts Rules of Civil Procedure adopted a series of amendments as they relate to electronically stored information (ESI) and electronic discovery. These amendments will take effect on January 1, 2014.
The Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure recently recommended several important changes to the FRCP. There is some debate about the effectiveness of the measures recommended, but very little disagreement about the fact that this would be a large change. Perhaps the
The Advisory Committee on Civil Rules met late this March in Ann Arbor to discuss amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Included on the agenda was the report of the Discovery Subcommittee, which has been pondering the issue of sanctions and preservation since
Last week, it was very busy here at the Bllawg. Check out this round up to make sure you didn’t miss any new content! Monday: LLM was announced as an early sponsor of the 2012 Master’s Conference, to take place in Washington, D.C. this October.
Late last year, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware revised the “Default Standard for Discovery” for the third time to reflect recent changes in technology and to address the concerns of lawyers regarding electronically stored information and the discovery process. The