Patent Law Practice Center

How The Sausage Is Made

Written by Brandon Baum of Baum Legal and Practice Center Contributor.

You often hear that the key to being a patent trial lawyer is the ability to master complex technical concepts and communicate them to lay jurors. To comfortably act as a translator between the hard science of technology and the soft art of human understanding and common sense. The reality, however, is not quite so impressive.

Take, for example, this closing argument from the i4i vs. Microsoft case. What follows is the entirety of i4i’s discussion of infringement in its initial closing argument:

 

 

 

 

 

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