{"id":10656,"date":"2019-10-09T10:17:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T16:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=10656"},"modified":"2019-10-09T10:17:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T16:17:08","slug":"rule-36-opinions-and-judicial-weight-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=10656","title":{"rendered":"Rule 36 Opinions and Judicial Weight Gain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I suppose one way of encouraging panels not to issue so many Rule 36 judgments is to appeal to their vanity.  According to a recent report, grandmaster chess players burn around 6,000 calories a day during a chess tournament.  One player, Fabiano Caruana, has dropped from 135 pounds before a tournament to 120 pounds at the end of the tournament.  During a match, a player&#8217;s breathing rate can triple and blood pressure can elevate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is obviously a significant difference in mental effort involved in writing an opinion as compared to issuing a Rule 36 judgment.  So, if judges were to forsake the &#8220;Rule 36 Diet&#8221; and embrace the &#8220;Opinion Writing Workout,&#8221; they might find themselves in need of brand new robes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You often hear patent law described as &#8220;the thinking person&#8217;s profession.&#8221;  Usually, it is patent attorneys describing it this way!  (<em>I suspect attorneys in all areas of the law describe their specialty as &#8220;the thinking person&#8217;s profession.&#8221;<\/em>)  It would be an interesting survey to see if patent attorneys do indeed benefit from a higher neuro-calorie-burn.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose one way of encouraging panels not to issue so many Rule 36 judgments is to appeal to their vanity. According to a recent report, grandmaster chess players burn around 6,000 calories a day during a chess tournament. One player, Fabiano Caruana, has dropped from 135 pounds before a tournament to 120 pounds at [&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\/10656"}],"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=10656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10657,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10656\/revisions\/10657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}