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Well, that's one interpretation of the history of patent law. Another might note that patentees became enormously more powerful when the CAFC was created, winni
by WildUtah 12y ago
Well, that's one interpretation of the history of patent law. Another might note that patentees became enormously more powerful when the CAFC was created, winning a much higher proportion of cases. The metastatic growth of the patent system was a goal of the patent bar.
"To try to bring more uniformity to the judicial interpretations and applications of patent law"
That isn't an improvement when the decisions are consistently bad.
- dctoedt 12y ago> The metastatic growth of the patent system was a goal of the patent bar. Back then, I was a baby lawyer in one of the largest patent-law firms in the U.S. I don't remember metastatic growth being discussed as an explicit goal, but there's no question that patent attorneys, on both the plaintiff- and defense sides, welcomed the greater prestige and income that went with litigating bet-the-product-line infringement lawsuits.