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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. Lacerta Group, LLC , No. 2022-1954 (Fed.

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Guest Post by Prof. Dmitry Karshtedt: Nonobviousness and Time

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Samsung decision in 2016 and the never-ending debate over whether secondary considerations are best treated as rebuttal evidence to a prima facie case of obviousness based on the prior art, or whether all obviousness evidence should be analyzed holistically and at once. Read the draft article here: [link].