IP Watchdog

MARCH 27, 2024

Judge Richard Taranto authored the opinion and held that an improper jury instruction given at trial by the district court required vacatur of the court’s final judgment that Inline’s patent claims were invalid for obviousness. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential ruling in Inline Plastics Corp.

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Jury Instructions Objections Litigation 64

E-Discovery LLC

JUNE 27, 2024

Work product” protection begins when material is prepared in anticipation of litigation. The duty to preserve is triggered when litigation is reasonably anticipated. The County conceded that generally it anticipated litigation but asserted that it had not specifically anticipated this litigation. at *3 (emphasis added).

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Jury Instructions Litigation Discovery 130

IP Watchdog

AUGUST 31, 2021

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Jury Instructions Litigation Technology 127

Sound Jury Blog

JANUARY 8, 2024

In the spirit of correcting past problems and forging new habits, here’s a list of litigation resolutions – from case intake to closing argument – to put your trial strategy either back on track or to keep it on track. Deposition practice is one of the most over-looked aspects of litigation preparation.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 26, 2023

Depending on how the court focuses its analysis, the opinion could be as narrow as how the jury instruction should read for pharmaceutical antibody claims written in the form of “a binding site plus a function.”

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Jury Instructions Pharmaceuticals Litigation 78

Next Generation E-Discovery Law & Tech Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In its first eDiscovery failing, Arch Insurance did not issue a litigation hold until four years after having constructive notice of the claim. The Court ruled that the Plaintiff could introduce evidence of Arch Insurance’s eDiscovery failures at trial and would issue a jury instruction as an evidentiary sanction.

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Insurance Jury Instructions Evidence Discovery 59

Next Generation E-Discovery Law & Tech Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Junior State of America Foundation , is a civil litigation matter involving the intentional destruction (spoliation) of social media evidence. A case out of the federal courts in Texas addressed this issue head on. The plaintiff had deleted his Facebook account resulting in lost evidence critical to the case.

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Evidence Jury Instructions Discovery Affidavits 52