Julia Mano Johnson Leads PLI Panel on How Judges See and Handle Patent Cases

Partner Julia Mano Johnson lead a panel at PLI’s Patent Litigation 2017: Advanced Techniques & Best Practices in Chicago on October 12-13. The two-part discussion, titled “Patent Litigation – How Judges See and Handle Patent Cases,” included a panel of district court judges who presented their views on the following:

• Patent litigation: what’s good, what’s bad, and what’s unnecessary
• Local patent rules and practice: managing multi-party litigation, including scheduling issues, bifurcation, the timing and adequacy of infringement and invalidity contentions, resolving discovery disputes, and the timing and number of case dispositive motions
• Impact of parallel PTAB proceedings, especially the issue of stays
• High costs of discovery practice
• Form and timing of Markman hearings
• Timing and form of effective mediation, court-ordered (or encouraged) settlement conferences and pre-trial practices, including motions in limine and Daubert motions

Julia’s practice centers primarily on pharmaceutical patent litigation under the Hatch-Waxman Act. She has been involved in all aspects of the pretrial, trial, and post-trial phases of patent infringement cases, including taking numerous depositions, conducting cross-examinations of fact and expert witnesses, and drafting post-trial briefs.