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I know civil and criminal are different; however, I thought that was the whole point of the special jury instructions (making it impossible/more difficult for h
by chimeracoder 14y ago
I know civil and criminal are different; however, I thought that was the whole point of the special jury instructions (making it impossible/more difficult for his ruling to be overturned on appeal).
In any case, I guess we'll see soon....
- DannyBee 14y agoSadly, I can't comment on the jury instructions except to encourage you to look around at other patent and copyright cases and see if you think they are really all that special or different. I can say it is statistically more difficult to overturn jury verdicts than it is to overturn judge verdicts. On the patent side, you can find interesting but slightly out of date data here: http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2010/04/are-appeals-at-the-federal-circuit-a-coin-flip.html http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2010/04/are-appeals-at-the-f... You should be able to figure out which issues are eliminated by having mainly a jury decision on patents instead of a judge decision.