{"id":2203,"date":"2010-04-12T19:11:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T01:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2010-04-12T19:11:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T01:11:26","slug":"deference-to-the-district-court-out-of-respect-for-judicial-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=2203","title":{"rendered":"Deference to the district court out of respect for judicial economy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hearing Components, Inc. v. Shure, Inc.<\/span>, 2009-1364 (Fed. Cir. April 1, 2010),\u00a0 Judges Rader, Schall, and Lourie explored when it would be appropriate to defer to a\u00a0 district court judge&#8217;s handling of issues in order to enhance the district court&#8217;s docket management.\u00a0The issue was raised by Judge Rader who is currently sitting by designation\u00a0at the district court level and presiding over some patent cases in the Eastern District of Texas.\u00a0 Essentially, Judge Rader seemed to be inquiring\u00a0whether it would be appropriate to defer to the district court judge on a claim construction issue when it\u00a0is apparent that the district court judge was using the claim construction to expeditiously dispose of a less important patent so that\u00a0the district court judge\u00a0could devote\u00a0more resources toward a more important patent in the\u00a0litigation.\u00a0\u00a0You can listen to the judges&#8217; comments\u00a0here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/2009-1364-excerpt-1.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Hearing Components, Inc. v. Shure, Inc., 2009-1364 (Fed. Cir. April 1, 2010),\u00a0 Judges Rader, Schall, and Lourie explored when it would be appropriate to defer to a\u00a0 district court judge&#8217;s handling of issues in order to enhance the district court&#8217;s docket management.\u00a0The issue was raised by Judge Rader who is currently sitting by designation\u00a0at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203"}],"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=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2210,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions\/2210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}