Fresh off last week’s updates to Judge Albright’s Standing Orders (covered here and here); this week brings a further update, in the form of version 3.4 of the Court’s Order Governing Proceedings. It’s been only about four months since the Court rolled out OGP v3.3, and it’s fair to say this is just a series […]
Waco Division business keeps churning on, even while there’s a trial underway. So we wanted to bring you a couple general updates that relate to go-forward procedures in Judge Albright’s patent cases. First, the Court has issued another update to its Order Governing Proceedings for Patent Cases (this time version 3.3). Based on our initial […]
Most of the big news out of Waco this week was Judge Albright’s updated procedures (which we covered here and here). Here are takes on those updates from others around the patent-litigation universe: Winston & Strawn’s WacoWatch blog covered the updates here. The Waco Patent Litigation Updates blog covered them here and here. Michael C. […]
For anyone interested in hearing directly from the Court, Judge Albright will be participating at 1PM Central today in a “teleforum” sponsored by the Federalist Society, entitled “Patent Litigation in the Western District of Texas: An Afternoon Discussion with Judge Alan Albright and a New Take on Patent Case Procedures.” Based on the event title […]
Today, September 22, the Court issued a new version 3.1 of its Order Governing Proceedings—i.e., the default procedural reference point for all parties involved in a patent case before Judge Albright. We’ll tackle the major changes below, and in a companion post we also address the Court’s very substantial update to its Standing Order Regarding […]
The default rule in patent cases pending before the Waco Division is that fact discovery is stayed until the Markman hearing is over; that hearing in turn typically follows service of a responsive answer or Rule 12 motion by approximately seven months. Specifically, the Court’s operative Order Governing Proceedings (OGP) provides: Except with regard to […]