The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit determined that the limitation “a pH of 13 or higher” could not be construed using the asserted patents’ intrinsic evidence and therefore remanded to ...
In Texas Pacific Land Corp. v. Horizon Kinetics, LLC, et al., the Delaware Court of Chancery enforced a "no drafting history clause" that restricted the court's ability to consider "the events of ...
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“We find that this case is one where the proper claim construction cannot be reached without the aid of extrinsic evidence, and that the district court should have considered, at minimum, the textbook ...
In his Evidence column, Michael J. Hutter discusses two issues arising under New York law governing impeachment: the ban on the use of extrinsic evidence that contradicts the witness's testimony on a ...
The Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled that extrinsic evidence could be used to prove the validity of a will signed by the testator’s conservator under the conservator’s mistaken belief that his ...
Two doctrines frequently arise in Pennsylvania jurisprudence when addressing disputes between the parties to a contract: the parol evidence rule and the gist of the action doctrine. While each serves ...
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