The U.S. District Court in Chicago this month rolled out new local patent rules designed to move patent cases along in a more predictable, consistent and speedy fashion.
The new rules, effective Oct. 1, set a timetable for resolving patent cases within two years, as opposed to the average four years that it currently takes, said Michael Padden, a Chicago partner at Washington-based Howrey who worked on the committee that drafted the rules for the Northern District of Illinois. While the committee did not write the rules specifically to turn the court into a “rocket docket” that pushes cases to trial within a year, the court will be attractive to plaintiffs who want to avoid extremely long cases, he said.
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