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Re: starkd748 post# 9835

Wednesday, 05/08/2013 3:47:16 PM

Wednesday, May 08, 2013 3:47:16 PM

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Try reading the article slower. They are not limiting claims to 10, they are asking that in the markman that the number of claims they are being asked to interpret be limited to 10, and it's only a suggestion. The whole point of the article is that they are trying to make patent litigation in Mass. faster, so that's good news for us!!! Good find! And it's not new, it's from 2009.
http://newenglandinhouse.com/2009/02/01/new-rule-boosts-patent-appeal-in-massachusetts/


“The temptation I quickly discovered is that when this claims construction duty was assigned to the court, you would find that lawyers would designate for construction every term of the patent,” Stearns said. “In a recent patent case I wrote, one of the terms that I was actually asked to construe was what a bed was.”
The new rule suggests that attorneys limit the number of claims they ask the court to interpret to 10, Stearns said. “The idea is to caution lawyers that we don’t want these rabbit-like multiplications of claim construction requests.”





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