Excerpted from SEAK's Course: How to Excel as an Expert Witness in Patent Cases: Special Techniques When you go to the expert witness directory, all right, make sure your online profile is top notch. All right? Get a good, professional photograph. All right? Because I've had, when I started talking about LinkedIn, [...]
Excerpted from SEAK's Course: How to Excel as an Expert Witness in Patent Cases: Special Techniques So that we got the three. This is the Graham Factor Steve was talking about earlier. Again, it's another one where you don't need to have the terms memorized. But it's, you know, if you hear [...]
Excerpted from SEAK's Course: How to Excel as an Expert Witness in Patent Cases: Special Techniques So technology tutorials can be incredibly useful, as I've said before. What they do...you're educating the judge, you're educating the judge's clerks, if he's got a technology advisor, you're educating the technology advisor on the technology. [...]
Excerpted from SEAK's Course: How to Excel as an Expert Witness in Patent Cases: Special Techniques Keep in mind. At the other place where Claim Construction comes up is going to be a patent office proceedings. And, a critical aspect of the patent office proceeding is that they construe claims differently than [...]
We'll talk a little bit more in detail, I think tomorrow about Hatch-Waxman. How many of you have heard of Hatch-Waxman? Okay, so Hatch-Waxman governs most of the litigation between generic and brand drug companies. And the interesting thing about Hatch-Waxman trials is that the cases that they occur [...]
Excerpted from SEAK's Course: How to Excel as an Expert Witness in Patent Cases: Special Techniques So again, it's all about having ownership over your report. This is the same type of report that you would submit in district court litigation where you're limited. This is your testimony. This is it. There's [...]
Excerpted from SEAK's Course: How to Excel as an Expert Witness in Patent Cases: Special Techniques A trial process, plaintiff goes first, gets to put on their case. They explain why the patent's infringed. Then the defendant comes up. Defendant says it's not infringed and it's invalid. Plaintiff gets to go up [...]
Jury instructions regarding expert witnesses are outlined in Model Utah Jury Instructions, Rule 121. Model Utah Jury Instr. 121 (2014). This rule instructs the jury on the factors that should be considered when the jury evaluates a witness’s testimony. Id. The jury is allowed to believe or disregard an expert’s testimony given the credibility [...]
General jury instructions in Texas are outlined in Texas’s Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 226a Instructions to Jury Panel and Jury. TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. §10 (West 2017). These rules provide an overview of what the court should tell the jury regarding the evidence that is presented during trial. Id. There [...]
Jury instructions regarding expert witnesses in Tennessee are outlined in Tennessee’s Civil Pattern Jury Instructions, Rule 2.30. TENN. PRACTICE PATTERN JURY INSTR. CIVIL 2.30 (2017). This rule instructs the jury that expert witnesses are able to testify as to their opinions regarding the matter at hand. Id. The rule also provides that the jury [...]