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N.D. Illinois Local Patent Rules: Additional Views

R. David Donoghue

February 19, 2010 10:34

I am working on some additional analysis of the Local Patent Rules, after I finish with a trial in the next several weeks.  But for now, this Chicago Daily Law Bulletin story quotes me and several others about the impact of the Rules: New rules could boost patent filings By Jerry Crimmins Law...

No Equitable Estoppel Where Parties Never Communicated

R. David Donoghue

February 17, 2010 11:09

Integrated Cards, L.L.C. v. McKillip Indus., Inc. d/b/a USA/Docufinish, No. 06 C 2071 (N.D. Ill. Nov. 19, 2009) (Kendall, J.).  Judge Kendall, following a bench trial, held that pre-suit damages were barred by laches, but that the claims were not barred by equitable estoppel, in this patent...