Yesterday, Magistrate Judge Burke released a new form scheduling order. There are redlines embedded below.
Here is a quick rundown of some of the changes in the patent scheduling order:
- Added from Judge Andrews' scheduling order:
- A requirement for plaintiffs to provide licenses and settlement agreements as part of their disclosures
- A prompt in the scheduling order for the parties to consider a staged reduction of asserted claims and prior art, before and after claim construction (this comes up a lot)
- Added from Judges Connolly, Noreika, and/or Hall's scheduling orders:
- A requirement to include chart at the end listing the deadlines all together (convenient!)
- A Concise Statement of Facts requirement for summary judgment
- He …
