Typically during oral argument the appellant and appellee are each given\u00a0fifteen minutes to argue their respective cases.\u00a0 When there is more than one appellant or appellee, the allotted time must be shared.\u00a0 The sharing of oral argument time is\u00a0most often\u00a0clumsy,\u00a0ineffective, and discouraged by the judges.\u00a0Rather, it is more persuasive when one attorney argues\u00a0all the issues.\u00a0 Because attorneys represent\u00a0 individual clients and not entire sides of a case, however, sharing of time will undoubtedly continue so that each attorney can ensure that his or her client is fairly represented.<\/p>\n
As a heads up to those facing this issue in the future, it is possible to move for additional time to be shared among multiple parties on one side.\u00a0 For example, in E-Pass Technologies, Inc. v. 3COM Corp. et al.<\/span>, 2006-1356 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 12, 2007) the Federal Circuit granted the three appellees ten minutes each for a total of\u00a0thirty minutes rather than the typical\u00a0fifteen minutes for all appellees.\u00a0 This is what Chief Judge Michel remarked at that time: [Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Typically during oral argument the appellant and appellee are each given\u00a0fifteen minutes to argue their respective cases.\u00a0 When there is more than one appellant or appellee, the allotted time must be shared.\u00a0 The sharing of oral argument time is\u00a0most often\u00a0clumsy,\u00a0ineffective, and discouraged by the judges.\u00a0Rather, it is more persuasive when one attorney argues\u00a0all the issues.\u00a0 […]<\/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\/1844"}],"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=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions\/1910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}