extraordinary qualifications of the Court's new clerks
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eDIGITAL with its patened technology would have strong position to validate at MARKMAN HEARING in presence of very qualified judges and clrerks
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Posted by Michael Smith on December 08, 2008 at 09:13 PM in Eastern District of Texas news & events | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday's patent case status conferences in Marshall were unexpectedly preceded by a point of personal privilege, as I think Judge Ward put it, when all three of his and Judge Everingham's new law clerks were sworn in as members of the State Bar of Texas and the Eastern District Bar, with family and friends in attendance. As is customary locally, the members of the bar in attendance stood for the swearing in.
The reason I point this out is that Judge Ward took a few moments to outline the extraordinary qualifications of the Court's new clerks, which should be of interest to practitioners in the patent docket in Marshall. Assuming I got this right, they include:
I bring this up because while the point has often been made that the Eastern District's judges have considerable expertise in patent litigation, the qualifications of the Court's staff is also worth mentioning. These are just insanely high qualifications for district court clerks, and I was glad that the patent lawyers assembled for the cattle call, er status conference got to hear that maybe, just maybe, the Court knows a little bit about this newfangled patent litigation business. I'm just glad that the competition wasn't this fierce when I got out of law school, or I'd still be working in Waco!