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Litigation

Apr. 19, 2011

Hight Court Could Reshape Patent Law

The U.S. Supreme Court takes up Microsoft Corp.'s bid to escape a $290 million patent infringement verdict today in a case that could change litigation strategies and impact the innovation economy.


By Robert Iafolla and Craig Anderson


Daily Journal Staff Writers


WASHINGTON - When the U.S. Supreme Court takes up Microsoft Corp.'s bid to escape a $290 million patent infringement verdict today, the justices will consider whether to rewrite patent law in a way that significantly alters litigation and sends ripples across the country's multibillion-dollar innovation economy.


Practitioners call it the most important intellectual proper...

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