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• Before Hiring an Expert, Do Your Homework ( February 2007 )
  Robert J Ambrogi of

  Ask Jenner & Block partner Howard S. Suskin to sum up his advice on selecting an expert and he answers without hesitation: “Do your homework." "You want to get as much information as you can to satisfy yourself that the person you’re thinking about using has the competency and credibility to serve as an expert witness,” Suskin says.

• Patent Ruling Turns an ‘About’ Face ( February 2007 )
  Robert J Ambrogi of

  What is the meaning of the word about when used in a patent? The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals confronted that elusive question in a recent dispute between two pharmaceutical manufacturers and expert testimony proved important in finding the answer.

• Trade Secrets Experts: Two Circuits, Two Outcomes ( February 2007 )
  Robert J Ambrogi of

  Two recent rulings from federal circuit courts reviewing expert testimony in trade secrets cases reached very different results, with one circuit upholding admission of the testimony and the other finding that the testimony was sufficiently harmful to require a new trial. Taken together, the two cases shed light on the allowable boundaries for expert testimony in trade secrets litigation.

• Never Ask Your Client for an Expert ( January 2007 )
  Robert J Ambrogi of

  When IP lawyer John P. Hutchins needs a referral to an expert witness, there is one source he always avoids – clients – and another he solicits only warily – law partners. A misguided referral from either one, he has learned, puts the relationship at risk and may send his expert search back to square one.

• Recent Changes in the Admissibility of Biomechanical Expert Testimony in Delaware ( July 2004 )
  Somers S. (Chip) Price of Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP

  Delaware's Supreme Court recently decided a trio of cases concerning the admissibility of biomechanical expert testimony. Biomechanics is the study of &#quot;the mechanical bases of biological, especially muscular, activity; also: the study of the principles and relations involved.&#quot;

• Case Management And Expert Disqualification -- Two Important Delaware Patent Decisions ( July 2004 )
  Richard L. Horwitz and David E. Moore of Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP

  In Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique v. Dell Computer Corp., et al., C. A. Nos. 03-484-KAJ, 03-857-KAJ, 03-931-KAJ, 03-1036-KAJ, 04-099-KAJ (D. Del. May 13, 2004), Judge Jordan addressed the thorny issue of how to weigh the parties' rights, and practical concerns, in the context of numerous motions to consolidate cases and motions to stay as to certain parties, in five cases brought by the same plaintiff (&#quot;CEA&#quot;) against more than sixty defendants.

• Listen To The Experts? Recent Appellate Rulings Affect Admissibility Of Medical-Expert Testimony ( June 2004 )
  Scott P. Devries of Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott LLP

  Complex civil cases, all too often, become the province of expert witnesses. Regardless of the issue, it is the rare case when counsel is unable to locate an expert who will support a given scientific proposition. And when they do, the expert inevitably will be able to explain, in cogent and dispassionate terms, why the side that retained him or her is in the right.

• Jennings Decision Will Impact Admissibility of Expert Testimony in California ( January 2004 )
  Curtis A. Cole, Kenneth R. Pedroza and Chanda R. Weber of Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

  Thelen Reid's appellate team, led by partner Curt Cole in our Los Angeles office, recently argued a case with potentially groundbreaking significance regarding the admissibility of expert testimony in California.

• Delaware Premises Liability Law ( September 2000 )
  

  Use of a liability expert witness was an issue in a case we recently defended successfully before a jury in Delawa.

• Star Wars Technology in the Courtroom ( July 2000 )
  Gerald A. Klein of Klein & Wilson

  If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a moving picture is worth a hundred thousand words. Courtroom animati.