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By Order dated June 15, 2020 and issued by Chief Judge Stark, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware issued and adopted its re-opening guidelines that includes four phases of re-opening. Phase One of the re-opening will commence on Wednesday, June 17, 2020.

Phase One involves the court’s initial emergence from strict…

By Memorandum Order entered by The Honorable Leonard P. Stark in United Access Technologies, LLC v. AT&T Corp. et al., Civil Action No. 11-338-LPS (D.Del. June 12, 2020), the Court denied the motion of Defendants AT&T Corp., AT&T Services Inc. and SBC Internet Services, Inc. (collectively, “AT&T”) seeking to compel certain litigation funding-related discovery…

By Opinion entered by The Honorable Leonard P. Stark in Belcher Pharmaceutical, LLC v. Hospira, Inc., Civil Action No. 17-775-LPS (D.Del. March 31, 2020), following a two day bench trial and post-trial briefing in the action filed by plaintiff Belcher under the Hatch-Waxman Act as a result of defendant Hospira’s attempt to bring to…

By Memorandum Order entered by The Honorable Leonard P. Stark in Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. v. Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Inc. et al., Civil Action No. 17-275-LPS-CJB (D.Del. February 27, 2020), the Court rendered its rulings on five of the six motions in limine filed by the parties in preparation for the trial scheduled…

By Order entered by Chief Judge Leonard P. Stark on January 31, 2020, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware added three Delaware attorneys to its Special Masters Panel in complex civil cases. The three Delaware attorneys added are Helena Rychlicki, Chad Stover and Gregory B. Williams (partner at Fox Rothschild LLP…

By Memorandum Order entered by The Honorable Leonard P. Stark in Align Technology, Inc. v. 3Shape A/S, et al., Civil Action No. 18-1949-LPS-CJB (D.Del. September 19, 2019) the Court granted Defendants’ motion to dismiss in part and denied it in part. In doing so, the Court found that claims 1-9, 16, 17 and 21…

By Memorandum Order entered by The Honorable Leonard P. Stark in The Gillette Co. v. Dollar Shave Club, Inc. et al., Civil Action No. 15-1158-LPS-CJB (D.Del. August 7, 2017), the Court overruled the parties’ objections to the Memorandum Order issued on March 7, 2017 by Magistrate Judge Burke denying defendants’ motion to stay the…