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CAFC: Jury Instructions Must Address Each Objective Indicia of Nonobviousness Raised by Patent Owner

IP Watchdog

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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Designation of “Work Product” Supports Inference of Intentional Spoliation

E-Discovery LLC

As a result, the Court will give an adverse inference instruction to the jury; the exact content of this instruction will be determined during the jury instruction conference. 3d 1040, 1056–57 (S.D. at *3 (emphasis added).

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DEALING WITH THE “ERROR OF JUDGMENT” DEFENSE IN MEDICAL MALPRACTICE CASES

Plaintiff Trial Lawyer Tips

Some states, like Washington, approve a jury instruction on this concept. A common defense in medical malpractice cases is to assert the cause of the injury was an unintended outcome following medical judgment regarding acceptable choices between alternative medical judgments.

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What I’ll Be Watching for in the Amgen Oral Arguments

IP Watchdog

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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Fifth Circuit Affirms Texas Court’s Judgment that Ericsson Complied with FRAND Obligations

IP Watchdog

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Three Key eDiscovery Lessons from Domus BWW Funding v. Arch Insurance Company

Next Generation E-Discovery Law & Tech Blog

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. The Court found Arch Insurance’s actions caused prejudice to the Plaintiffs in the form of delays, costs and lost evidence, justifying sanctions under Rule 37(e)(1).

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2024 Litigation Resolutions for All Litigators

Sound Jury Blog

And 3) How do you want jurors to apply the jury instructions to the verdict form questions? The steps include: highlighting specific jury instruction language; linking that language to the particular verdict question; tying the answer to specific evidence and testimony.