Tracking Northern District of Illinois IP Cases
This afternoon, Chief Judge Pallmeyer entered a second general order updating the first general order (which extended all civil deadlines 21 days) and further addressing the “Coronavirus COVID-19 public Emergency” The Court ordered as follows:
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Hangzhou Aoshuang E-Comm. Co. v. 008Fashion, et al., No. 19 C 4565, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Dec. 3, 2019) (Cole, Mag. J.).
Magistrate Judge Cole granted defendants’ (collectively “008Fashion”) motion for an extension to respond to discovery requests and to vacate the Court’s prior order finding that 008Fashion’s responses were late and requiring compliance…
Republic Techs. (NA), LLC v. BBK Tobacco & Foods LLP d/b/a HBI Int’l., No. 16 C 3401, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Jan. 14, 2020) (Harjani, Mag. J.)
Magistrate Judge Harjani denied defendant HBI’s 28 U.S.C. § 1782 motion for an order to take discovery for use in a foreign proceeding in this trademark proceeding…
Beckman Coulter, Inc. v. Sysmex Am., Inc., No. 18 C 6563, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Apr. 26, 2019) (Rowland, Mag. J.).
Magistrate Judge Rowland granted in part defendants’ (collectively “Sysmex”) motion to compel more definite responses regarding plaintiff Beckman Coulter’s dates of conception and reduction to practice in this patent case involving automated software…
The Northern District of Illinois has amended Local Rule 5.8 (Filing Materials Under Seal) to require that all documents filed either by counsel or a non-represented party with an e-filing account be filed electronically pursuant to Local Rule 26.2, unless the Court has held that the documents need not be filed electronically pursuant to…
Effective December 1, 2018, the Northern District’s Mandatory Initial Discovery Pilot (“MIDP”) no longer requires that a defendant answer along with filing a Fed. R. Civ. P. 12 motion to dismiss, including fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6) motions to dismiss for failure to state a claim. For the first eighteen months of the MIDP –…
First Classics, Inc. v. Jack Lake Prods., Inc., No. 17 C 1996, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Jun. 1, 2017) (Cole, Mag. J.).
Judge Cole granted plaintiff’s motion to cancel the parties’ agreed settlement conference, but denied plaintiff’s motion for monetary sanctions without prejudice to refile its motion with more detail.
Because defendant refused to…
ABS-CBN Corp. v. Pinoy Grill, LLC, No. 16 C 11448, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Jan. 9, 2017) (Shadur, Sen. J.).
Judge Shadur sua sponte ordered plaintiff to comply with Local Rule 5.2(f) and the Court’s directive that all pleadings – including complaints – be delivered to the Court in hard copy. The Court ordered…
O2 Media, LLC v. Narrative Science Inc., No. 15 C 5129, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Jan. 3, 2017) (Tharp, J.).
Judge Tharp denied prevailing defendant Narrative Science’s 35 U.S.C. §285 motion to make exceptional and for attorney’s fees in this patent dispute after granting Narrative Science’s motion to dismiss which held plaintiff O2 Media’s…
Narkiewicz-Laine v. Doyle, No. 11 C 1826, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Jun. 15, 2016) (Kapala, J.).
Judge Kapala adopted the magistrate judge’s report and recommendation striking as moot defendants’ motion to strike plaintiff’s Local Rule 56.1 statement of facts. No party objected to the report and the Court’s review found no errors in the
