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>Edit: rayiner claims below he (the foreman) may be correct in his statement about the patentability question. Hogan says that the jury was instructed not to d
by mistercow 14y ago
>Edit: rayiner claims below he (the foreman) may be correct in his statement about the patentability question.
Hogan says that the jury was instructed not to decide patentability, but the only three occurrences of the word "patentable" (or any other form of that word) in the jury instructions were where it specifically instructed the jury to decide whether specific inventions were unpatentable due to obviousness.
- tzs 14y agoThe jury was given specific grounds on which they could find the patent invalid. See instructions 29 through 33 and 48 through 52. Invalidating because of lack of patentable subject matter is not among these.
- mistercow 14y agoNobody said anything about subject matter.
- tzs 14y agoHogan was clearly interpreting the question from Gizmodo as asking about whether they considered if the patents were patentable subject matter.
- mistercow 14y agoYes, probably, but that in and of itself is troubling, as it would seem to indicate that he hasn't given much thought on the subject of patentability for individual inventions, even though that was an entire section of the jury instructions.