Without much fanfare, the Northern District of California has taken a bold step by adding damages to the list of early disclosures in patent litigation.
The court updated its influential Patent Local Rules last month to require disclosure of damage estimates and theories—along with discovery about comparable licenses; fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory (FRAND) commitments; sales and profits—before cases reach claim construction hearings.
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