Judge Farnan Institutes Motion-Day Schedule

Judge Farnan has instituted a new policy, effective immediately, for non-dispositive motions that will affect all pending patent cases. The policy, which sets an in-court schedule for motion practice beginning early next year, supersedes all language to the contrary on previously filed scheduling orders. The first motion day, at which each party will be limited to twenty minutes of oral argument, will be February 2, 2007.