Jury instructions regarding expert witnesses in Virginia are outlined in Virginia’s Practice Jury Instructions §3:8. VA. PRAC. JURY INSTR. §3:8 (2017). These rules provide that when there is “serious conflict in the evidence” the jury must be instructed that it is responsible for determining how much weight to give each witness and which witnesses [...]
Jury instructions regarding expert witnesses in Vermont are outlined in Vermont Civil Jury Instructions § G. Vt. Civil Jury Instr. § G (2008). This rule instructs the jury that individuals with “special knowledge, training, or experience” are experts and they are permitted to testify as to their opinion on the case at hand. Id. [...]
It doesn't say inflatable, but it says this other word...I can't think of a synonym for inflatable, but another word for inflatable and that means...a person who's skilled in the art, again, POSA, would know that that was inflatable, and so it's disclosing that, and it's disclosing that it's orange even though it [...]
Excerpted from SEAK's Course: How to Excel as an Expert Witness in Patent Cases: Special Techniques Okay, let's talk about direct examination. We have, like, an hour left. One of the things that I noted when I was doing research for this course...I looked at a survey that Law 360 did, which [...]
Excerpted from SEAK's Course: How to Excel as an Expert Witness in Patent Cases: Special Techniques On the prior art side, this is where I find experts to be very helpful, would be what was, if we go back in time to the relevant invention date of, like, say, 1998, what other [...]
Excerpted from SEAK's Course: How to Excel as an Expert Witness in Patent Cases: Special Techniques Now there's a doctrine of equivalents and this is something we're experts are called upon quite a bit and this is a really tricky area of the law. So it's doctrine of equivalents or DOE as [...]
Excerpted from SEAK's Course: How to Excel as an Expert Witness in Patent Cases: Special Techniques When you go to the expert witness directory, all right, make sure your online profile is top notch. All right? Get a good, professional photograph. All right? Because I've had, when I started talking about LinkedIn, [...]
Excerpted from SEAK's Course: How to Excel as an Expert Witness in Patent Cases: Special Techniques So that we got the three. This is the Graham Factor Steve was talking about earlier. Again, it's another one where you don't need to have the terms memorized. But it's, you know, if you hear [...]
Excerpted from SEAK's Course: How to Excel as an Expert Witness in Patent Cases: Special Techniques So technology tutorials can be incredibly useful, as I've said before. What they do...you're educating the judge, you're educating the judge's clerks, if he's got a technology advisor, you're educating the technology advisor on the technology. [...]
Excerpted from SEAK's Course: How to Excel as an Expert Witness in Patent Cases: Special Techniques Keep in mind. At the other place where Claim Construction comes up is going to be a patent office proceedings. And, a critical aspect of the patent office proceeding is that they construe claims differently than [...]