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Another Judge Slaps Down Another Set Of Medtronic Patent Attorneys

from the uppity-judges dept

We noted recently that a judge was so fed up with a pair of well-known patent attorneys that he not only overturned the verdict, but he made the attorneys pay the opposing side's legal bills. Now, in a totally separate patent battle, yet another judge has done the same exact thing. And, in what may (or may not) be a coincidence, both sets of lawyers were representing Medtronic. In both cases, they ignored the earlier parameters set on how the patent claims could be portrayed in court. It's good to see judges pushing back, though it really does say something that patent attorneys felt they could get away with this.

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  1. Medical Bills? by LBD on Mar 4th, 2008 @ 8:16pm

    You mean legal bills, right?

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  2. hehehehe by Hellsvilla on Mar 4th, 2008 @ 9:14pm

    Hey Mike, what's on your mind?

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  3. "Patent Attorneys" by M. Slonecker on Mar 4th, 2008 @ 9:31pm

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  4. Re: Medical Bills? by Mike on Mar 4th, 2008 @ 10:14pm

    Oops. Yes.

    I think the "Medtronic" part through me. Sorry. Fixed now.

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  5. Re: Re: Medical Bills? by Old Norse on Mar 4th, 2008 @ 10:30pm

    "through you" or "threw you"? Jeezis...

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  6. Re: Re: Re: Medical Bills? by Mike on Mar 4th, 2008 @ 11:02pm

    Yikes. It's been a long day. Sorry for that too...

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  7. by Mr. Fix it on Mar 4th, 2008 @ 11:35pm

    hopefully those judges will get some RIAA cases...

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  8. Re: by Anonymous Coward on Mar 5th, 2008 @ 5:55am

    Well... see, Patent attorneys don't bribe, er... contribute as well as RIAA does.

    So you see RIAA will probably fair better than Medtronic.

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  9. Re: RIAA by Carl on Mar 5th, 2008 @ 9:12am

    "fair better than Medtronic" or "fare better"? I hope you did that on purpose...

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