Patent Case Management Judicial Guide 2009

The Federal Judicial Center published a “Patent Case Management Judicial Guide”  that is intended to be a guide for district judges.  This provides a good overview of the trial process from the judge’s point of view.  Chapter 11 is a primer on patent law.   The guide is free and available online here as a pdf.
The guide is described as:   
A comprehensive, user-friendly, and practical judicial guide for managing patent cases. …..  In addition, patent cases often entail distinctive and difficult discovery issues, extensive use of experts, and particularly complex dispositive and pretrial motion practice. The authors surveyed federal judges and describe their approaches and best practices for these and other aspects of patent case management.

The following link is to the Federal Judicial Center publication in PDF format.
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“Patent Case Management Judicial Guide” by Peter S. Menell; Lynn Pasahow; James Pooley; Matthew Powers  - 2009, 650 pages.

• Partial Summary Table of Contents
  Chapter 1. General Principles
  Chapter 2. Early Case Management
  Chapter 3, Preliminary Injunction
  Chapter 4. Discovery
  Chapter 5. Claim Construction
  Chapter 6. Summary Judgment
  Chapter 7. Pretrial Case Management
  Chapter 8. Trial
  Chapter 9. Post-Trial
  Chapter 10. ANDA Cases
  Chapter 11. Patent Law Primer
   

For more info see:
http://www.fjc.gov/public/pdf.nsf/lookup/patent01.pdf/$file/patent01.pdf
http://www.fjc.gov/
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1328659