By Brian | March 22, 2012 at 12:38 PM | Comment
Another East Texas jury has invalidated a patent, or four, actually. Jurors in the Ceats, Inc. vs. Continental Airlines Inc, et al., trial in Tyler found that the four claims asserted by the plaintiff were infringed, but were also invalid. Read more about it here. While we had friends and clients on the Plaintiff’s side [...]
By Brian | February 9, 2012 at 7:03 PM | Comment
In Judge Leonard Davis’s courtroom in Tyler, after a short deliberation, the jury in the Eolas vs. Adobe et al., trial has found that Eolas’s U.S. Patent 5,838,906 and U.S. Patent 7,599,985 are invalid. This is a huge development in the software patent wars, as Eolas basically claimed that they owned the Web and had sued several dozen [...]
By Brian | December 5, 2011 at 11:36 AM | 1 Comment
We have a new article up at the Jury Expert: “A Necessary Evil: Edward Tufte and Making the Best of PowerPoint“. It’s the second in our series on popular theories of presentation design, and how they relate to the courtroom. In this article, we discuss Information Design guru Edward Tufte’s writings against many presenters’ favorite [...]
By Brian | July 26, 2011 at 5:37 PM | Comment
I began working in litigation graphics in 1998. We did all the standard stuff: medical malpractice, contract disputes, employment issues, environmental problems, construction, intellectual property—a little bit of everything. In 2002/2003, I started working on my first software patent infringement case, Kodak vs. Sun. It was the first time I’d worked on a technical tutorial, [...]
By Brian | May 12, 2011 at 10:02 AM | Comment
Congratulations to Yahoo! and their counsel at McDermott Will & Emery and Haltom & Doan! Barnes & Roberts is proud to have been a part of the trial team that successfully proved Yahoo! does not infringe U.S. Patent 5,893,120. The jury returned a unanimous verdict of non-infringement in just 50 minutes, deciding that the accused code [...]
By Jason | March 30, 2011 at 12:40 PM | Comment
Join us for a discussion of the Good, the Bad and the Just Plain Crazy advice about using PowerPoint in trial.
By Jason | January 13, 2011 at 2:13 PM | Comment
Last week, the Federal Circuit left the “25% rule of thumb ” for calculating infringement damages lying on the kitchen table when it declared this oft used, but little substantiated, theory to be “fundamentally flawed” and “inadmissible.” The ruling also places further restrictions on admissibility of the entire market value of a product without a clear [...]
By Brian | August 3, 2010 at 2:45 PM | Comment
A jury in Austin, Texas, has awarded Richard Garriott $28 million in damages in his suit against his former company, NCsoft. Congratulations to Mr. Garriott and his attorneys at Fish & Richardson. Barnes & Roberts provided graphics and helped present the case in Judge Sparks’s courtroom in Austin.
By Brian | October 15, 2009 at 4:48 PM | Comment
Congratulations to Cummins-Allison Corp, and their attorneys from Winston Strawn, Nixon Peabody and The Heartfield Law Firm, for their successful infringement suit against Shinwoo Information & Telecommunications Co. and Amro-Asian Trade. US Patents 6,459, 806; 5,966,456; 6,381,354; and 5,909,503 were found valid and infringed in Judge Ron Clark’s Court in Beaumont, TX. The jury awarded [...]
