{"id":4429,"date":"2011-09-18T11:45:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T17:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=4429"},"modified":"2011-09-18T11:53:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T17:53:32","slug":"hans-gruber-and-the-federal-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=4429","title":{"rendered":"Hans Gruber and the Federal Circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, that Hans Gruber.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A panel of the Federal Circuit was trying to\u00a0evaluate the construction of the term &#8220;bearer instrument&#8221; in a recent oral argument.\u00a0 Counsel for the\u00a0defendant-appellee\u00a0was explaining that, with respect to bearer instruments,\u00a0title passes by delivery\u00a0 without endorsement.\u00a0 As an illustration, he used the example of Hans Gruber trying to steal bearer bonds\u00a0in the movie Die Hard.\u00a0 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/2011-1027-excerpt-1.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].\u00a0 While the analogy\u00a0resonated with me, I\u00a0couldn&#8217;t tell from the recording if it did with the panel.\u00a0\u00a0 As it turns out, Hans Gruber is a very\u00a0well-known character.\u00a0 He\u00a0is the 46th most notorious villain in the last 100 years\u00a0of the movies, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afi.com\/100Years\/handv.aspx\">American Film Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the entire oral argument in\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Privacash, Inc. v. American Express\u00a0Co. et al.<\/span>\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/oralarguments.cafc.uscourts.gov\/Audiomp3\/2010-1243.mp3\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>You can read the court&#8217;s opinion [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/images\/stories\/opinions-orders\/11-1027.pdf\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, that Hans Gruber.\u00a0 A panel of the Federal Circuit was trying to\u00a0evaluate the construction of the term &#8220;bearer instrument&#8221; in a recent oral argument.\u00a0 Counsel for the\u00a0defendant-appellee\u00a0was explaining that, with respect to bearer instruments,\u00a0title passes by delivery\u00a0 without endorsement.\u00a0 As an illustration, he used the example of Hans Gruber trying to steal bearer bonds\u00a0in [&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429"}],"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=4429"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4440,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429\/revisions\/4440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}