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Local Patent Rules - Western District of Tennessee
Within 21 days after service of the Invalidity and Unenforceability Contentions, each
party opposing a claim of inequitable conduct and/or invalidity shall serve on all parties Validity
and Enforceability Contentions, which shall contain the following information:
(a) A chart, responsive to the chart required by LPR 3.5(c), that identifies each
limitation of each asserted claim that is missing from the asserted prior art;
(b) A responsive statement explaining why the disclosures and statement required by
LPR 3.5(e) do not render the asserted patents unenforceable;
(c) All documents supporting the disclosures made in LPR 3.7(a)-(b) to the extent
that they have not already been produced.
