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Another Judge Slaps Down Another Set Of Medtronic Patent Attorneys

from the uppity-judges dept

Tue, Mar 4th 2008 8:08pm — Mike Masnick

We noted recently that a judge was so fed up with a pair of well-known patent attorneys that he not only overturned the verdict, but he made the attorneys pay the opposing side's legal bills. Now, in a totally separate patent battle, yet another judge has done the same exact thing. And, in what may (or may not) be a coincidence, both sets of lawyers were representing Medtronic. In both cases, they ignored the earlier parameters set on how the patent claims could be portrayed in court. It's good to see judges pushing back, though it really does say something that patent attorneys felt they could get away with this.

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Filed Under: attorney's fees, patent abuse, patents
Companies: medtronic

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LBD, 4 Mar 2008 @ 8:16pm

Medical Bills?
You mean legal bills, right?
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- Mike (profile), 4 Mar 2008 @ 10:14pm
  
  Re: Medical Bills?
  Oops. Yes.
  
  I think the "Medtronic" part through me. Sorry. Fixed now.
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  - Old Norse, 4 Mar 2008 @ 10:30pm
    
    Re: Re: Medical Bills?
    "through you" or "threw you"? Jeezis...
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    - Mike (profile), 4 Mar 2008 @ 11:02pm
      
      Re: Re: Re: Medical Bills?
      Yikes. It's been a long day. Sorry for that too...
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Hellsvilla, 4 Mar 2008 @ 9:14pm

hehehehe
Hey Mike, what's on your mind?
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M. Slonecker, 4 Mar 2008 @ 9:31pm

"Patent Attorneys"
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Mr. Fix it, 4 Mar 2008 @ 11:35pm

hopefully those judges will get some RIAA cases...
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- Anonymous Coward, 5 Mar 2008 @ 5:55am
  
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  Well... see, Patent attorneys don't bribe, er... contribute as well as RIAA does.
  
  So you see RIAA will probably fair better than Medtronic.
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Carl, 5 Mar 2008 @ 9:12am

Re: RIAA
"fair better than Medtronic" or "fare better"? I hope you did that on purpose...
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