{"id":3299,"date":"2010-11-10T21:13:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T03:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=3299"},"modified":"2010-11-10T21:13:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T03:13:15","slug":"en-banc-oral-argument-in-tivo-v-echostar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=3299","title":{"rendered":"En Banc Oral Argument in Tivo v. Echostar"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Federal Circuit sat en banc<\/em> yesterday for the oral argument in Tivo v. Echostar<\/span>, 2009-1374,\u00a0a case concerning alleged contempt of a permanent\u00a0 injunction\u00a0based on a design around effort by Echostar.<\/p>\n

You can listen to the en banc<\/em> oral argument here: [Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n

The issues on en banc<\/em> review are:\u00a0<\/p>\n

a) Following a finding of infringement by an accused device at trial, under what circumstances is it proper for a district court to determine infringement by a newly accused device through contempt proceedings rather than through new infringement proceedings? What burden of proof is required to establish that a contempt proceeding is proper?<\/span><\/p>\n

b) How does “fair ground of doubt as to the wrongfulness of the defendant\u2019s conduct” compare with the “more than colorable differences” or “substantial open issues of infringement” tests in evaluating the newly accused device against the adjudged infringing device? See Cal. Artificial Stone Paving Co. v. Molitor<\/span>, 113 U.S. 609, 618 (1885); KSM Fastening Sys., Inc. v. H.A. Jones Co.<\/span>, 776 F.2d 1522, 1532 (Fed. Cir. 1985).<\/p>\n

c) Where a contempt proceeding is proper, (1) what burden of proof is on the patentee to show that the newly accused device infringes (see KSM<\/span>, 776 F.2d at 1524) and (2) what weight should be given to the infringer\u2019s efforts to design around the patent and its reasonable and good faith belief of noninfringement by the new device, for a finding of contempt?<\/span><\/p>\n

d) Is it proper for a district court to hold an enjoined party in contempt where there is a substantial question as to whether the injunction is ambiguous in scope?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/p>\n
The en banc order is available here: [En Banc Order<\/a>].<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span><\/span>T<\/span>he earlier three judge panel opinion\u00a0(Judges Mayer, Lourie, and Rader; Rader dissenting) is available here: [Link<\/a>].<\/div>\n
You can listen to the earlier three judge panel\u00a0oral argument here: [Listen<\/a>].\u00a0 The earlier oral argument is beneficial in that you can hear Chief Judge Rader’s comments.\u00a0 Chief Judge Rader for some reason has not actively asked questions in the en banc<\/em> oral arguments since he became Chief Judge.<\/div>\n

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The Federal Circuit sat en banc yesterday for the oral argument in Tivo v. Echostar, 2009-1374,\u00a0a case concerning alleged contempt of a permanent\u00a0 injunction\u00a0based on a design around effort by Echostar. You can listen to the en banc oral argument here: [Listen]. The issues on en banc review are:\u00a0 a) Following a finding of infringement […]<\/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\/3299"}],"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=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3340,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions\/3340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}