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There has been this weird insurrection by the Federal Circuit defying Supreme Court precedents to push for overly-strong intellectual property laws. Hopefully t
by guelo 9y ago
There has been this weird insurrection by the Federal Circuit defying Supreme Court precedents to push for overly-strong intellectual property laws. Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of that insurrection. Personally I would like to see the Federal Circuit disbanded; the idea of a court with technically-specialized judges seems like a good idea but in practice we have ended up with a court filled with a bunch of biased patent-enforcing corporate litigators.
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- PatentTroll 9y agoFirst of all, the Fed. Cir. doesn't only do patent cases! They also handle appeals from the court of federal claims (read: suing the government) and veterans matters among other stuff. But consider the reason why appellate jurisdiction was concentrated in the Fed Cir in the first place, imagine a court of appeals that went off the rails as much as the EDTX! The Fed Cir is a good thing, and I'd even advocate for a unified court of first instance for all patent infringement matters to avoid another EDTX happening in the future.