Technology litigation

Patent litigation reporting

Claim construction, inventor and expert testimony, ITC investigations, and PTAB proceedings — where the vocabulary is the evidence.

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Proceedings

Where patent matters generate a record

Each of these produces a different kind of transcript problem, and each one is a preparation problem before it is a reporting problem.

Claim construction

Markman briefing and hearings, where a single term is argued across several proposed constructions and the differences between them are exactly what has to survive into the transcript.

Inventor and fact depositions

Prosecution history, conception and reduction to practice, and engineering testimony, with the exhibit volume that a file history brings and the numbering discipline it requires.

Expert testimony

Infringement, invalidity, and damages experts — prior art references, claim charts, and reasonable royalty analysis, all of it dense with names and numbers that have to be exact.

Venues

Where this work concentrates

Patent litigation clusters in a small number of districts, and the local rhythm of each one is worth knowing before scheduling around it.

California

The Northern District and the technology corridor around it, plus the Central and Southern Districts — inventor, engineer, and expert depositions are frequently taken where the company sits rather than where the case is filed.

Texas

The Western District at Waco and the Eastern District at Marshall and Tyler, along with depositions in Austin, Dallas, and Houston. Schedules in these venues tend to be firm, which makes expedited and daily turnaround a booking decision rather than an afterthought.

Patent litigation

Questions about patent coverage

Do you report claim construction and Markman proceedings?
Yes. Claim construction turns on precise language, often the same term repeated with small deliberate variations. The preparation for it is a term list built from the asserted claims and the briefing, so the distinctions the parties are arguing about survive into the transcript intact.
Can you cover an inventor deposition with prosecution history exhibits?
Yes. File histories produce heavy exhibit volume and dense back-references to application numbers, office actions, and amendments. Consistent exhibit numbering across sessions is what keeps a later citation usable.
What about ITC investigations?
Section 337 investigations run on compressed schedules with expedited and daily transcript needs. That is a scheduling conversation to have at booking, because the turnaround tier determines how the week is staffed.
Do you report PTAB-related depositions?
Yes. Declarant and expert depositions in inter partes review proceedings are reported the same way as any expert deposition, with the technical vocabulary and the prior art references prepared in advance.
How do you handle technical terms that sound alike?
They go into the job dictionary before the deposition, drawn from the asserted patents, the expert reports, and the claim charts. A term entered ahead of time is written correctly the first time it is spoken instead of arriving as a phonetic approximation to be fixed in errata.

Patent deposition on calendar?

Send the caption and the asserted patents with the notice. The terminology goes into the dictionary before the date.

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