by Ken Lopez
Founder/CEO
A2L Consulting
In today’s litigation world, no subject of litigation is more important or carries with it more money at stake than patent law. Because of the rise of high-tech industry and the Internet, intellectual property has never been worth more to its owners. High-profile cases such as Apple v. Samsung are just the beginning. Cases valued in the hundreds of millions or even the billions are common, and patent litigation case filings are rising faster than any other area of the law.
Lawyers in these cases must develop an astonishing degree of knowledge of the industry and of the complex patents involved in order to try them successfully. Yet in a jury trial, even one that involves arcane issues of science and engineering, the litigator can’t lose the common touch and can’t lose sight of the need to persuade ordinary people of the rightness of his or her cause, using ordinary language.
This paradox makes the trial lawyer’s task all the more difficult in a patent case. You simply must understand the technology, yet you can’t get lost in it. Whether jury trials are even appropriate for these cases is a good question, but for now we need not ask it, since jury trials are being used in them.
Accordingly, we at A2L have put together our newest ebook – the Patent Litigation Toolkit, 3rd Edition. At 200 pages, this version of the book is more than twice as large as 2012's 2nd edition. Over the past 18 years at A2L, about 50 percent of our work has been in the patent litigation field. Simply, this type of information is not assembled anywhere else and is incredibly valuable to a patent litigator.
Here, the busy trial lawyer will read fascinating and up-to-date articles on topics such as:
- 11 Tips for Winning at Your Markman Hearings
- Surprises in Going from IP Litigator to Litigation Consultant
- 21 Ingenious Ways to Research Your Judge
- Introducing Mock Markman Hearings for Patent Litigation
- Teaching Science to a Jury: A Trial Consulting Challenge
- 7 Ways to Draft a Better Opening Statement
- Demonstrative Evidence & Storytelling: Lessons from Apple v. Samsung
- Explaining Patent Claim Language in Patent Litigation
- Explaining a Complicated Process Using Trial Graphics
- Memorable Markman Exhibits and Patent Litigation Trial Graphics
- 15 Patent Infringement Graphics: Illustration + PowerPoint
- Trial Exhibits: Antitrust, Pharmaceuticals & Hatch-Waxman Litigation
To download a free copy, just click here.
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