Across
- 6. hearings in which parties are permitted to provide their competing arguments in briefs to the court, usually after discovery is completed, and make an oral argument on their respective positions to the court.
- 7. a specification of dates by which certain activities must be concluded, issues by the court at, or shortly after, the pretrial conference.
- 8. the location for the case
- 9. a temporary suspention of a case ordered by the court.
- 10. misleading your opponent into believing you would not file suit.
- 11. a type of violation in which you do not need to know that you are infringing a patent, or that a patent even exists, to be liable for patent infringement.
- 12. a legal document filed that sets out why the filing party believes their claim against the defendant is valid.
Down
- 1. new charges filed against the plaintiff.
- 2. a trial proceeding that asks the PTO to take another look at whether the patent is valid, i.e., whether it should have been granted in the first place.
- 3. a procedure that obviates a trial where one of the parties can show that its opponent cannot win—as a matter of law.
- 4. money by offered the alleged infringer a license to practice your invention.
- 5. waiting an unreasonable time to make your claim.