Posts tagged as:

patent

Judge Young Issues Mea Culpa on Expert Witness Testimony in Patent Case, Orders a Do-Over

January 27, 2010
Thumbnail image for Judge Young Issues Mea Culpa on Expert Witness Testimony in Patent Case, Orders a Do-Over

Massachusetts U.S. District Court William Young has been teaching evidence law for as long as I can recall, even as far back as his pre-federal court days, when he was on the Superior Court bench (Judge Young was appointed to the federal bench in 1985, and had been a Massachusetts Superior Court Judge from 1978

Read the full article →

Andy Updegrove's Thoughts on the Microsoft v. TomTom Patent Case, on Consortiuminfo.org

March 20, 2009

It would be an understatement to observe that Microsoft’s patent suit against Dutch GPS vendor company TomTom has been closely watched. Why? Because Microsoft alleges that several of the patents at issue are infringed by TomTom’s implementation of the Linux kernel. In this first month of the dispute, the most urgent question has been this:

Read the full article →