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The district court erred by admitting untimely expert testimony on noninfringement and by refusing to grant a new trial after the jury found noninfringement. Trudell Medical International (“Trudell”) sued D R Burton...more
Expert witnesses can be critical to defending a tax position—but what happens when an expert must maintain confidentiality over information that is important to their analysis? Preserving this confidentiality while ensuring a...more
A federal judge in Minnesota recently granted a motion to exclude an expert declaration explaining the dangers of AI deepfakes because the declaration itself contained AI-hallucinated citations. The case was a First Amendment...more
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a)(2) requires parties to disclose the opinions of experts who may present evidence at trial. If the disclosures are inadequate, Rule 37(c) requires exclusion of the opinions “unless the...more
It is not uncommon for an opposing expert to opine that the existence of injury alone implies negligence, nor is it unusual to find that such opinions are supported only by general reliance on “literature” with no discernible...more
With Labor Day around the corner and summer coming to a close, the Federal Circuit had a busy week with a lot of precedential opinions to pick from. Below we provide our usual weekly statistics and our case of the week—our...more
Under Massachusetts procedure, a party has the right to compel an opponent to disclose its testifying expert’s opinions through interrogatories. But unlike federal procedure, a party under Massachusetts procedure must obtain...more
When it comes to expert witnesses, young lawyers can add tremendous value to their team through research into the background of both their own and the opposing party’s experts. This research should be done as early as...more
After the America Invents Act (AIA) passed with a vote of 304-177 in June 2011, inventors seeking patents had to be the first to file to lay claim to their innovations. As the first major shift in patent law since 1952,...more
It has been more than one year since the case Luminara Worldwide, LLC v. RAZ Imports, Inc., 2016 WL 6774231, 2016 U.S. LEXIS 158183, (D. Minn. Nov. 15, 2016) became a popular topic for the defense bar. As a brief recap, the...more