Patent Case Watch

Patent opinions from the Eastern District of Texas and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Weekly Digest

General / Procedural

This grouping collects orders that manage the litigation rather than decide the merits of a patent dispute. They include scheduling and case management orders, rulings on consolidation and severance, stays pending parallel proceedings, orders on substitution and joinder of parties, and administrative dispositions that move a case toward resolution. Procedural orders shape patent cases substantially even though they resolve no question of infringement or validity, because deadlines for contentions, claim construction, and expert discovery determine what each side may argue later. The documents collected here are those orders, gathered so that the procedural history of a case can be followed alongside its substantive rulings.

619 opinions and orders, showing 601–619.