mashraqi

[ This is my personal blog so all opinions expressed here are mine. I am a product, scalability, operations and monetization advisor and currently employed as Director of Business Operations & Technical Strategy for a top 50 website that delivers billions of page views per month. I was a keynote panelist for Scaling Up or Out keynote at MySQL Conference and speak regularly at conferences and user groups. ]

Monday, February 25, 2008

Patent verdict overturned as Judge Disciplines Prominent IP lawyers

Richard Matsch, Colorado's Senior District Judge, reversed a previous jury verdict in the patent infringement case of BrainLab vs. Medtronic. Not only that, Matsch also ordered plaintiff's lawyers to pay the defendant's court costs for engaging in "abuse of advocacy" and "abusive litigation conduct."

Labels: intellectual property, patent infringement, patents