{"id":3215,"date":"2010-10-21T17:28:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T23:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=3215"},"modified":"2010-10-21T17:28:35","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T23:28:35","slug":"be-careful-with-your-confidential-markings-in-federal-circuit-briefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=3215","title":{"rendered":"Be Careful with Your &#8220;Confidential&#8221; Markings in Federal Circuit Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting sound bite from the oral argument of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ESN, LLC\u00a0v. Cisco Systems, Inc. et al.<\/span>, 2010-1185 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 8, 2010).\u00a0 Judges Prost, \u00a0Rader, and Dyk commented on the trend by parties filing briefs at the Federal Circuit to mark\u00a0a lot of the\u00a0material as\u00a0&#8220;Confidential.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Judge Dyk characterized excessive confidential markings\u00a0in appeal briefs\u00a0as an &#8220;absolute\u00a0plague.&#8221;\u00a0 Chief Judge Rader indicated the court might just go ahead and use the &#8220;confidential&#8221; material in\u00a0its opinion anyway, if it needed to do so . . . .\u00a0 The panel ultimately issued a Rule 36 opinion; so, no confidential material was published by the court.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to Judges Prost and\u00a0Dyk and Chief Judge Rader comment\u00a0here: \u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-1185-esn-v-cisco-excerpt-1.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting sound bite from the oral argument of ESN, LLC\u00a0v. Cisco Systems, Inc. et al., 2010-1185 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 8, 2010).\u00a0 Judges Prost, \u00a0Rader, and Dyk commented on the trend by parties filing briefs at the Federal Circuit to mark\u00a0a lot of the\u00a0material as\u00a0&#8220;Confidential.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Judge Dyk characterized excessive confidential markings\u00a0in appeal briefs\u00a0as [&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\/3215"}],"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=3215"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3229,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions\/3229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}