Estimated Patent Case Schedule

=== Estimated Patent Case Schedule === UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS ESTIMATED PATENT CASE SCHEDULE Event Scheduled Time Total Time After Complaint Service of Complaint Answer or Other Response to Complaint Joint Scheduling Order (LPR 1.2) 7 days After Rule 26(f) conference Initial Disclosures of Both Parties (with no patent infringement counter-claim) / Commencement of Fact Discovery (LPR 2.1, LPR 1.3) 14 days After Answer or other Responsive Pleading Initial Infringement Contentions (LPR 2.2) 14 days After Initial Disclosures Initial Non-Infringement, Unenforceability and Invalidity Contentions (LPR 2.3) 14 days After Initial Infringement Contentions Initial Response To Invalidity Contentions (LPR 2.5) Final Infringement, Unenforceability and Invalidity Contentions (LPR 3.1) 14 days After Initial Non-infringement and Invalidity Contentions 21 weeks After Initial Infringement Contentions Final Non-infringement, Enforceability and Validity Contentions (LPR 3.2) 28 days After Final Infringement Contentions Exchange of Claim Terms Needing Construction and Proposed Construction (LPR 4.1) 14 days After Final Non-infringement Contentions Opening Claim Construction Brief (LPR 4.2(a 35 days After Exchange of Claims Terms 7 weeks (assumes 30-day extension) 9 weeks 11 weeks 13 weeks 15 weeks 32 weeks 36 weeks 38 weeks 43 weeks UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS ESTIMATED PATENT CASE SCHEDULE Event Scheduled Time Total Time After Complaint Responsive Claim Construction Brief (LPR 4.2(c 28 days After Opening Claim Construction Brief Reply Claim Construction Brief (LPR 4.2(d 14 days After Responsive Claim Construction Briefs Joint Claim Construction Chart (LPR 4.2(f 7 days After Reply Claim Construction Brief Claim Construction Hearing (LPR 4.3) 28 days After Reply Claim Construction Brief Claim Construction Ruling Six weeks (?) Close of Fact Discovery (LPR 1.3) 42 days After Claim Construction Ruling Expert Reports of Parties with Burden of Proof (LPR 5.1(b 21 days After Close of Fact Discovery Rebuttal Expert Reports (LPR 5.1) 35 days After Initial Expert Reports Completion of Expert Witness Depositions (LPR 5.2) 35 days After Rebuttal Expert Reports Final Day for Filing Dispositive Motions (LPR 6.1) 28 days After Close of Expert Discovery 47 weeks 49 weeks 50 weeks 53 weeks 59 weeks 65 weeks 68 weeks 73 weeks 78 weeks 82 weeks Case Ready for Trial 20 weeks After Filing Dispositive Motions 102 weeks