Admissibility of Disclosures

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Rule Set: Local Patent Rules of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Rule: 1.6

Jurisdiction: NDIL

Bluebook Citation: N.D. Ill. L. Pat. R. 1.6

The disclosures provided for in LPR 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5 are inadmissible as evidence on the merits.

Comment

The purpose of the initial disclosures pursuant to LPR 2.2 – 2.5 is to identify the likely issues in the case, to enable the parties to focus and narrow their discovery requests. Permitting use of the initial disclosures as evidence on the merits would 4 defeat this purpose. A party may make reference to the initial disclosures for any other appropriate purpose.

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