Joint Appendix News Today

Since I recently wrote about the Record (sort of; time is relative), I wanted to piggy-back on that topic to explain a wrinkle in the appellate practice/rules dynamic. ...

Pierre Delforge to accelerate product development and deployment

Since Virginia expanded its appellate jurisdiction, many once-foreign aspects of appellate practice are now front and center for many trial lawyers. A critical one relates to the...

In Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Promptu Systems Corp., 1 the Federal Circuit held that the plain meaning of the claim phrase “command function” was limited to functions that command an action to be taken. The meaning of this claim phrase turned out to be a focal point, and Comcast lost its invalidity challenge to the claims as a result of this interpretation. Comcast filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) of U.S. Patent No. 7,260,538 (the ’538 patent) on the grounds that...