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Jury Instructions and Objective Indicia of Nonobviousness: Federal Circuit Grants New Trial in Inline Plastics v. Lacerta

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Role of Jury Instructions and Objective Indicia In American civil litigation, jury instructions are the set of legal rules and guidelines provided to the jury by the trial judge before the jury begins deliberations. In reality, the fact/law questions are so hard to disambiguate that we should call obviousness a mixed question of fact and law.

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Guest Post by Prof. Dmitry Karshtedt: Nonobviousness and Time

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Dmitry Karshtedt is an Associate Professor of Law at GW Law whose work I’ve followed for years. Below he introduces the core idea underlying his new article on nonobviousness forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review. Read the draft article here: [link]. Nonobviousness and Time. Dmitry Karshtedt. Long-felt need.