Eastern District of Texas Federal Court Practice

Patent Litigation Dictionary - "Length of Trial"

Length of Trial = the length of time that a lawyer in trial's spouse believes they are a single parent.  Example:  In a case where a jury is picked on Monday, October 1, pretrial conference 2.0 is on  October 2, and the evidentiary phase of trial occurs from October 8-12 the effective "length of trial" is two weeks.  See Smith, Jamie Marie Noland, Collected Pronouncements, October, 2012 (forthcoming).

Patent Litigation Dictionary - "Silo-ed"

Silo-ed = party who is receiving only certain of the documents (pleadings, discovery, document production, etc.) in a case.  See Are You Surrounded by Knowledge Silos?.

Patent Litigation dictionary - "Ice cube"

Ice cube = an argument that stands the same chance of succeeding with the Court as an ice cube has of staying intact in hell.  Ed note. - this term probably should be "snowball" but for some reason we started saying "ice cube" and it's stuck.

Patent Litigation dictionary - "Delta"

I'm starting a new series of posts of some of the more interesting terms I've heard (or in some cases started using) in recent patent litigation cases locally.

Delta = "change".  As in "we made that delta on page six."  Ed. comment - I have no idea why the word "change" wasn't good enough, but apparently it's not.  I would note that this (to me) is different than using delta as part of a technical term noun to mean change in the context of science or engineering as part of a noun, as in "delta vee" which is the engineering term for "change in velocity".