Tracking Northern District of Illinois IP Cases
Loggerhead Tools, LLC v. Sears Holdings Corp., No. 12-CV-9033, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Sep. 20, 2016) (Darrah, J.).
Judge Darrah granted plaintiff Loggerhead’s Fed. R. Civ. P. 37 motion to exclude late-produced financial information and rebuttal damages expert opinions relying upon the late-produced information in this IP case involving the Bionic Wrench.
Defendants produced…
In October along with proposed revisions to the Local Patent Rules, the Northern District proposed new Local Patent Rules for Electronically Stored Information (“LPR ESI”). The LPR ESI share many commonalities with standing ESI Orders being used in patent cases in districts across the country. Additionally, the proposed LPR ESI is consistent with the existing …
