Elves live forever. Should lawsuits?
The Federal Circuit yesterday decided that a district court made right and wrong rulings in a patent dispute. Indeed, the court whirled a positive blur of both (right and wrong) decision types. And, despite the district court's unconscionable delay in resolution of the case (nine years after filing and five years after hearing), the majority sent the case back to the same supine district judge for proceedings that the dissenting judge deemed pointless. Cohesive Technologies, Inc. v. Waters Corp., No. 08-1029 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 7, 2008).
Blawgletter will say no more. For you must read the opinion to see what a hash the courts can, and did, make of a patent case.
