{"id":3993,"date":"2011-05-04T17:20:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T23:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=3993"},"modified":"2011-05-04T17:20:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T23:20:32","slug":"driving-up-the-costs-of-patent-litigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=3993","title":{"rendered":"Driving up the costs of patent litigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the recent oral argument of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Juniper Networks, Inc.\u00a0v. Shipley<\/span>, 2010-1327 (Fed. Cir. April 29, 2011),\u00a0 Chief Judge Rader asked Juniper&#8217;s counsel if\u00a0a court\u00a0should take into consideration a party&#8217;s motives for bringing a false marking action, such as bringing a case only to\u00a0gain leverage by driving up costs as much as possible.\u00a0 Juniper&#8217;s counsel noted that\u00a0if the court were to probe the\u00a0motives of a\u00a0plaintiff then it should similarly\u00a0consider the motives of the\u00a0defendant in related litigation.\u00a0 You can listen to Chief Judge Rader&#8217;s policy\u00a0comments here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/2010-1327-excerpt.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the entire oral argument here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/oralarguments.cafc.uscourts.gov\/Audiomp3\/2010-1327.MP3\">Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>You can read the court&#8217;s opinion here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/images\/stories\/opinions-orders\/10-1327.pdf\">Read<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the recent oral argument of Juniper Networks, Inc.\u00a0v. Shipley, 2010-1327 (Fed. Cir. April 29, 2011),\u00a0 Chief Judge Rader asked Juniper&#8217;s counsel if\u00a0a court\u00a0should take into consideration a party&#8217;s motives for bringing a false marking action, such as bringing a case only to\u00a0gain leverage by driving up costs as much as possible.\u00a0 Juniper&#8217;s counsel noted [&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\/3993"}],"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=3993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3995,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions\/3995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}