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Amicus practice
We write for trade associations and academic coalitions when a case will set the rule for everyone downstream.
Standard of review — Whatever the court is already applying.
A good amicus brief does not repeat the party’s argument in a different font. It supplies the thing the parties cannot: industry consequence, empirical grounding, or the doctrinal history nobody has room for.
If we cannot add one of those three, we decline.
On the record — amicus practice
- No. 20-1710 Fed. Cir.
Claim construction affirmed; the appellant's proposed limitation appeared nowhere in the prosecution history.
Affirmed 2021
Send us the record
If the judgment is wrong, it is worth one conversation.
We read the opinion and the operative briefs before the first call, at no charge. You will get a straight answer about whether an appeal is worth funding.