Patent Case Management Judicial Guide (3rd edition 2016): Volume I: Pretrial Case Management

This volume contains Appendices to the Patent Case Management Judicial Guide (3rd edition 2016), a treatise prepared for the Federal Judicial Center for use by federal judges.


Volume I contains the chapters dealing with the stages of case management leading up to trial: Chapter 1 (overview); Chapter 2 (early case management); Chapter 3 (preliminary injunction); Chapter 4 (discovery); Chapter 5 (claim construction); and Chapter 6 (summary judgment).

Volume II covers trial case management as well as various specialty patent litigation areas. It also contains a patent law primer: Chapter 7 (Pretrial Case Management - jury instructions, limits on expert testimony (Daubert motions), and motions in limine); Chapter 8 (Trial); Chapter 9 (Posttrial Case Management); Chapter 10 (ANDA/Biosimilars); Chapter 11 (Design Patents); Chapter 12 (Plant Patents); Chapter 13 (Federal Claims -- Patent Suits Against the United States); and Chapter 14 (Patent Primer).

Volume III contains appendices (patent local rules; model patent jury instructions).

Peter S. Menell is the Koret Professor of Law and Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology at University of California at Berkeley School of Law.

Lynn H. Pasahow is a partner at Fenwick & West.

James Pooley is senior counsel at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.

Matthew D. Powers is a partner at Tensegrity Law Group.

Steven C. Carlson is a partner at Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman.

Jeffrey G. Homrig is a partner at Latham & Watkins.

Geroge F. Pappas is a partner at Covington & Burling.

Carolyn Chang is a partner at Fenwick & West.

Colette Reiner Mayer is a partner at Morrison & Foerster.

Marc David Peters is a partner at Morrison & Foerster.