{"id":10153,"date":"2018-10-21T20:20:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T02:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=10153"},"modified":"2018-10-21T20:20:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T02:20:43","slug":"oral-argument-of-the-week-equistar-chemicals-lp-v-westlake-chemical-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=10153","title":{"rendered":"Oral argument of the week:  EQUISTAR CHEMICALS, LP v. WESTLAKE CHEMICAL CORPORATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The oral argument of the week is from\u00a0<i>EQUISTAR CHEMICALS, LP v. WESTLAKE CHEMICAL CORPORATION<\/i>, No. 2017-1548 (Fed. Cir. July 3, 2018). \u00a0The panel spent most of the hour long oral argument inquiring into the on-sale bar issue. \u00a0Questioning got fast and furious at one point with the judges stepping on one another&#8217;s questions. Cases discussed included <em>Medicines<\/em> (en banc), <em>Helsinn<\/em>, and <em>Plumtree<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The panel remanded the on-sale bar issue back to the district court with instructions to address the following issues:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What were the offers for sale of the product, and when were they made?<\/li>\n<li>Did the offers require the product to be made by the patented method?<\/li>\n<li>If the offers were accepted, was Equistar obligated to supply product made by the patented method?<\/li>\n<li>Before the critical date, did Equistar decide to fill orders with the patented method?<\/li>\n<li>Before the critical date, could orders be filled with products produced by the conventional process or was only product produced by the patented method available?<\/li>\n<li>Was the product produced before the critical date by the patented method made to enable the patentee to make offers before the critical date?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You can listen to the oral argument below:<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10153-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2017-1548.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2017-1548.mp3\">http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2017-1548.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>The opinion is available [<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=7865698052830850494&amp;q=dyk+o%27malley+moore&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=4,131&amp;as_ylo=2018\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oral argument of the week is from\u00a0EQUISTAR CHEMICALS, LP v. WESTLAKE CHEMICAL CORPORATION, No. 2017-1548 (Fed. Cir. July 3, 2018). \u00a0The panel spent most of the hour long oral argument inquiring into the on-sale bar issue. \u00a0Questioning got fast and furious at one point with the judges stepping on one another&#8217;s questions. Cases discussed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10155,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153\/revisions\/10155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}