The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit determined that the limitation “a pH of 13 or higher” could not be construed using the asserted patents’ intrinsic evidence and therefore remanded to ...

As generally understood, the parol evidence rule prohibits the introduction of extrinsic evidence to alter, vary or add to the terms of an integrated agreement. “Parol” is derived from the French word ...

“The court indicated that the PTAB had based its finding of the term ‘fixed’ entirely on extrinsic evidence and found that the intrinsic evidence was clear with respect to the meaning of ‘fixed.’” In ...

An Anne Arundel County judge did not err by using contextual evidence to decide that a defendant’s phone call from jail was a coded request for another man to commit murder, the Appellate Court of ...

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In a case closely watched by Tennessee’s business community, the Tennessee Supreme Court has held that trial courts cannot use evidence outside of the written agreement—called “extrinsic” evidence—to ...

In the aftermath of federal district judge Dale A. Kimball's recent ruling, which determined that Novell, not SCO, is the rightful owner of the UNIX copyrights, the once-mighty proprietary UNIX vendor ...

The Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled that extrinsic evidence could be used to prove the validity of a will signed by the testator’s conservator under the conservator’s mistaken belief that his ...

Last month the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued its decision in Aatrix Software, Inc., v. Green Shades Software, Inc., No. 2017-1452 (Fed. Cir. February 14, 2018). Issued on ...

Ryan Logan Valdez of Cantey Hanger. The eight-corners rule is an obvious, self-explanatory rule. It says what it means, and it means what it says, right? Maybe. It's complicated. Under the ...

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