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How Changes To U.S. Civil Procedure Rules Will Affect Patent Litigation
23 October 2015
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
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Changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, due to go into
effect in December 2015, will change the scope of discovery,
the timing of document requests, and the rules for responding to
document requests. These changes, the first overhaul to the
standards for producing documents since 2006, stand to impact
litigants throughout the federal court system. But patent
practitioners used to broad-ranging document requests may feel its
impact most acutely. In this article, Finnegan attorneys
Jeffrey C. Totten and
Robert C. MacKichan discuss the proposed changes to the Federal
Rules, the reasons for the changes described in the advisory
committee notes, and the projected impact on patent litigation.
Originally published by Managing Intellectual
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