Catching Up-Week of January 3, part 1

Judge Avern Cohn and his clerks must have been busy last fall as a couple appeals from the first week of 2009 are from his court.  FYI, later this year Judge Cohn will hit 30 years on the bench in the Eastern District of Michigan.  The four cases in Part 1 consist of 3 claim [...]

Catching Up-December 2008

December cases…

Catching Up-November 2008

Okay, so my efforts to catch up have fallen behind schedule, and now I resort to merely listing the appeals filed in November and December–then I can actually start covering the January cases.  Here are November's cases:

Catching Up-Week of October 27th

Another is the series of posts attempting to catch up.  A couple marking cases: one sufficiency and one false, and inventorship.

Third Parties And Protective Orders-Can You Handle The Truth?

In patent cases non-parties are regularly called upon to produce documents or give deposition testimony–material or information that is often confidential to some degree.  Most of the time this discovery goes off without too much trouble: a subpoena is issued, lawyers negotiate, and the discovery had.  Typically the producing party takes advantage of the Protective [...]

When You Need A Friend At Court

Everyone needs friends.  And what better time to have a friend with you is there than when arguing at the Federal Circuit, especially if your friend is also a "friend of the court," or amicus curiae? I have worked on quite a few amicus briefs, both in private practice and during law school while working [...]

Catching Up-Week of October 20th

As part of our recently announced plan to "catch-up" on coverage of cases, here are brief summaries of the appeals filed during the week of 20 October 2008 that we didn't already cover. I expect a series of these Catching Up posts over the next few weeks until we get through December's filings, and then [...]

Coming Soon To PATracer

Happy New Year, and thanks to everyone with reads, subscribes, comments, and otherwise uses PATracer.  When we started the site nearly a year ago we wanted to report on pending Federal Circuit patent cases–providing information on newly filed cases, the briefs, and oral argument. With 2008 in the books, Josh and I have reviewed PATracer [...]