Patent Damages on Tap as Full Federal Circuit Hears Google Case The Federal Circuit is being asked to restrict the kinds of evidence expert witnesses can describe to juries in Google’s appeal of a patent- infringement decision. Prof. Paul Gugliuzza says the case gives the appeals court a chance to “combat district judges’ temptation to avoid engaging with complex legal and evidentiary issues on patent damages by simply throwing everything to the jury.”

Plaintiffs in an antitrust and patent case appear to have sidestepped efforts to randomize judge selection by exploiting a procedural loophole. Prof. Paul Gugliuzza says “There are all kinds of examples where parties are following the letter of the law but it’s clear they are doing so for improper reasons …. This seems like a prime example. Read More

The Judicial Conference of the United States is trying to curb judge-shopping. Prof. Paul Gugliuzza and co-author J. Jonas Anderson explain what it is and how it corrodes the legitimacy of our judicial system. Read More

New guidance from the US Judicial Conference intended to prevent judge-shopping in all civil cases won’t have much impact on patent litigation, says Prof. Paul Gugliuzza. He points to Texas’s Western District court, where new filings show “that the judge shopping story in patent law is far from over—it’s just entering a new chapter.” Read More

Prof. Paul Gugliuzza and co-author J. Jonas Anderson explain how judge shopping has created a legitimacy crisis for federal courts and how a new case assignment policy can and can’t help. Read More

IPWatchdog picks up on criticism raised by Professor Paul Gugliuzza and co-author J. Jonas Anderson that new regulations intended to curb judge-shopping are essentially “toothless.” Read More

Prof. Paul Gugliuzza explains and defends the standard of review in a rare decision by the US Judicial Conference’s Committee on Conduct and Disability to uphold the suspension of an Article III judge. Read More

Prof. Paul Gugliuzza, Dean Rachel Rebouche, and co-author Jordana Goodman’s intersectional analysis of the appellate patent bar shows no correlation between race, gender, and success rate. So why is the private patent bar overwhelmingly white and male and what can be done about it? Read More

As Hunter Biden’s tax case moves closer to trial, Professor Paul Gugliuzza tells Bloomberg Law that the judge, Mark Scarsi, “values order and decorum in his courtroom” and doesn’t appear to have a political agenda. Read More

TikTok has persuaded the Fifth Circuit to transfer a patent dispute out of West Texas. How much impact will the opinion have for future patent defendants? Prof. Paul Gugliuzza says it’s too soon to say. Read More