|
Authored by: Ian Al on Thursday, October 18 2012 @ 02:04 AM EDT |
Am I correct to interpret that as saying that the rulings about the injunction
are not necessarily rulings that also apply and may be raised during the trial?
The jury were not given jury instructions covering the 'functional' issue when
considering design patents. Is there also a requirement on the two parties to
first raise the issue during the trial or must the judge always raise the issues
in the jury instructions?
If Samsung/Apple failed to point out the functional nature of the overall design
patents and why that is important, would that mean that the court would not be
in error in failing to instruct the jury on that part of the law? I know Samsung
used invalidity as a defence, but do they have to explicitly argue this detail
to get it considered in the jury instructions?
These may seem to be silly questions, but I keep remembering instances when
parties in a legal action should have raised an issue during a trial, during
claim construction or at some another point of due process, otherwise they lose
the opportunity to have it considered.
---
Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
|
- Thanks - Authored by: webster on Tuesday, October 23 2012 @ 01:52 PM EDT
|
|
|
|