{"id":1806,"date":"2010-02-05T00:47:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T06:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2010-02-05T00:49:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T06:49:03","slug":"you-be-the-judge-inequitable-conduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=1806","title":{"rendered":"You be the judge &#8212; Inequitable Conduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Circuit will soon decide the case of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Medtronic Navigation, Inc. v. BrainLab<\/span>.\u00a0 That case concerns the issue of whether it was proper\u00a0\u00a0to sanction Medtronic and its attorneys $4.4M for their opponent&#8217;s attorney fees, due to conduct during a jury trial.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Matsch, who presided over the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Medtronic Navigation<\/span> trial, recently awarded attorneys fees to another party in another patent case in his court.\u00a0 In <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">CCC Group, Inc.\u00a0v. Martin Engineering, Inc.<\/span>, 05-cv-00086-RPM-MJW (D. Colo. January 19, 2010), Judge Matsch awarded attorneys fees to the defendant and found the patents at issue unenforceable due to inequitable conduct.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see if this decision is appealed.\u00a0 I will have to study the decision further; but, one statement\u00a0in the opinion seems to indicate that it was purportedly deceitful and misleading\u00a0to include as Fig. 1 in a patent a\u00a0drawing\u00a0\u00a0that was an oversimplification of the prior art.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the district court&#8217;s opinion\u00a0here:\u00a0 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ccc.pdf\">Read<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Circuit will soon decide the case of Medtronic Navigation, Inc. v. BrainLab.\u00a0 That case concerns the issue of whether it was proper\u00a0\u00a0to sanction Medtronic and its attorneys $4.4M for their opponent&#8217;s attorney fees, due to conduct during a jury trial. Judge Matsch, who presided over the Medtronic Navigation trial, recently awarded attorneys fees [&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\/1806"}],"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=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1819,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions\/1819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}