{"id":3010,"date":"2010-09-17T14:47:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T20:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=3010"},"modified":"2010-09-20T09:13:03","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T15:13:03","slug":"alice-in-wonderland-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=3010","title":{"rendered":"Alice in Wonderland &#8212; Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alice in Wonderland made an encore\u00a0appearance at the Federal Circuit recently during the oral argument of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Daiichi Sankyo Co. v. Mylan Pharma<\/span>, 2009-1511 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 9, 2010).\u00a0 The panel was trying to assess whether one would have chosen an example in a patent reference as a motivation to modify another reference, when\u00a0the example was the 118th example in the patent reference.\u00a0 This prompted Judge Friedman to make the following\u00a0analogy to Alice in Wonderland: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2009-1511-daiichi-excerpt1.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>References to Alice in Wonderland are made quite often in judicial opinions.\u00a0 If you have access to Lexis, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">see<\/span> &#8220;Wondering about Alice: Judicial References to Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass,&#8221; Parker B. Potter, Jr., 28 <strong>Whittier L. Rev.<\/strong> 175 (2006).<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the entire oral argument here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/oralarguments.cafc.uscourts.gov\/Audiomp3\/2009-1511.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>You can read the opinion here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/images\/stories\/opinions-orders\/09-1511.pdf\">Read<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alice in Wonderland made an encore\u00a0appearance at the Federal Circuit recently during the oral argument of Daiichi Sankyo Co. v. Mylan Pharma, 2009-1511 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 9, 2010).\u00a0 The panel was trying to assess whether one would have chosen an example in a patent reference as a motivation to modify another reference, when\u00a0the example was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010"}],"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=3010"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3016,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}