The Northern District has posted the Seventh Circuit’s new proposed pattern jury instructions for patent cases on its website — click here for a copy. The instructions include all of the recent revisions to the patent laws, including KSR and Seagate. The Seventh Circuit requested comments on the instructions be sent to:
Chief Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr.
robert_miller@innd.uscourts.gov
325 Robert A. Grant Federal Building
204 S. Main St.
South Bend, IN 46601
Comments will be accepted until April 1st. Also, below is my list of IP jury instructions by Northern District judge, I am sure we will start to see some new ones soon in light of the turbulent 18 months patent law has had:
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Global Computing, Inc. v. Hartford Cas. Ins. Co., No. 05 C 6753, 2007 WL 844618 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 14, 2007) (Hibbler, J.).
Judge Hibbler granted defendant-insurer summary judgment that it had no duty to indemnify or defend plaintiff-insured. Microsoft brought suit against plaintiff alleging that plaintiff distrbuted counterfeit Microsoft software and used Microsoft logos…
Northern District of Illinois Jury Instructions
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Crafting proposed jury instructions is one of the first steps when preparing for trial. And one of the first steps in drafting those instructions is looking for pattern or sample instructions that the court has previously used or endorsed. In order to help speed that process, I am adding a new Blog feature. I have gathered the jury instructions that each of the Northern District judges identify on their respective web pages as either form or model instructions. Most have general civil instructions and a few have specific sample instructions for various types of IP suits.
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