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I was asking specifically about this from the article "And Posner's seat on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals doesn't give him a direct role in shaping paten
by chrisduesing 14y ago
I was asking specifically about this from the article "And Posner's seat on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals doesn't give him a direct role in shaping patent policy because (as we discussed yesterday) the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has exclusive jurisdiction over patent appeals. Posner was able to hear the Apple v. Motorola case because he was temporarily sitting in as a trial judge."
- timsally 14y agoAh I see. I'm not aware of an instance of an appellate judge moving to another circuit. I suppose technically the President could nominate him. I actually dislike that the Federal Circuit gets all patent cases. The end result in no circuit splits and SCOTUS ends up hearing a lot less patent cases than it should.