US · rules
N.D. Ill. LPR 1.3
Fact Discovery
Fact discovery shall commence upon the date for the Initial Disclosures under LPR 2.1 and shall be completed twenty-eight (28) days after the date for exchange of claim terms and phrases under LPR 4.1. Fact discovery may resume upon entry of a claim construction ruling and shall end forty-two (42) days after entry of the claim construction ruling.
Comment
The Rule states that resumption of fact discovery upon entry of a claim construction ruling "may" occur. The Rule does not provide that discovery shall automatically resume as a matter of right. It is intended that parties seeking further discovery following the claim construction ruling shall submit a motion explaining why further discovery is necessitated by the claim construction ruling.
Provenance
- Source
- www.ilnd.uscourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-18
- Edition
- fed-district-2026-09-18
- Content hash
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