November 2009 – Click for full issue

• Status Report – Pleading patent infringement allegations in view of Iqbal, Twombly, McZeal, Colida, and Form 18
  • The Supreme Court’s Precedents Regarding Notice Pleading Under Rule 8
  • Form 18 and its Deficiencies
  • Federal Circuit Precedents on Pleading Patent Infringement Allegations and Form 18
  • How District Courts are Responding to Iqbal
  • Concluding Thoughts
• District court holds accused infringer may not assert improper revival of a patent that lapsed for not timely paying a maintenance fee as an affirmative defense to a charge of infringement under the guise of an alleged § 102(c) abandonment
• Questioning deponent as to whether it changed the design of an accused product in response to receiving an opinion of counsel improperly invaded the attorney-client privilege
• Patent infringement claim dismissed because it conflicted with a national security law that compelled the accused infringer to perform the acts accused of infringement
• Northern District of Illinois formally adopts local patent rules