Category: Report

Is PowerPoint Evil? »

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 [...]

The Patent Wars »

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, [...]

Yahoo! Does Not Infringe »

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 [...]

Beyond Bullet Points: Hits and Misses »

Join us for a discussion of the Good, the Bad and the Just Plain Crazy advice about using PowerPoint in trial.

Opposable Thumb: Patent Liability Damages Are Flawed »

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 [...]

Richard Garriott vs. NCsoft »

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.

Cummins-Allison v Shinwoo, et al., Verdict »

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 [...]