Jury Trial, Motion For New Trial, Appeals

Superior Court Affirms New Trial in Zoo Injury Case Due to Omission of Open and Obvious Doctrine in Jury Instructions

Marshall Dennehey on 8/28/2025

Janick v. Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 2025 PA Super 90 (Pa. Super. Apr. 22, 2025) - On appeal, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania affirmed a trial court’s granting of a new trial after recognizing it erred in failing...more

HVLPO2, LLC v. Oxygen Frog, LLC (Fed. Cir. 2020)

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 2/10/2020

Expert witness testimony is a frequent (almost ubiquitous) feature of patent litigation, if only because questions of the state of the art or the understanding of one having ordinary skill in the art are almost always at...more

01 Communique Laboratory, Inc. v. Citrix Systems, Inc.

Knobbe Martens on 5/2/2018

Federal Circuit Summaries - Before Newman, Mayer, and Stoll. Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Summary: While there is not a “practicing the prior art” defense to literal...more

Federal Circuit Review - February 2018

Knobbe Martens on 3/14/2018

Improperly Drafted Employment Agreement Leads to Dismissal of Patent Case Due to Lack of Standing - In Advanced Video Technologies LLC v. HTC Corporation et al., Appeal Nos. 2016-2309, 2016-2310, 2016-2311, the Federal...more

Key California Employment Law Cases: January 2018

Payne & Fears on 3/1/2018

This month’s key California employment law cases both involve jury trials of discrimination claims, and the extent to which the plaintiffs were able to recover attorney’s fees and damages....more

Exmark Manufacturing Company v. Briggs & Stratton Power

Knobbe Martens on 1/16/2018

Federal Circuit Summaries - Before Wallach, Chen, and Stoll. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska. Summary: Reexaminations of patents confirming validity are not dispositive of...more