At least one of those “human judges” is already experimenting with AI tools to help determine the meaning of words and phrases in legal texts. In May 2024, Judge Kevin Newsom of the US Court of ...
Addressing claim construction issues, a divided panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a jury verdict of infringement, holding that the district court’s “plain and ordinary ...
The statute sounds simple. A criminal defendant faces enhanced penalties if he has previously been convicted of three felonies committed on "occasions different from one another." But the defendant in ...
We are grateful to Eugene Volokh for the invitation to discuss corpus linguistics generally and our forthcoming article, "Judging Ordinary Meaning," in particular. Corpus linguistics is an empirical ...
Consider Newsom’s May concurrence in Snell v. United Specialty Insurance, a dispute turning on the meaning of “landscaping” and whether installing an in-ground trampoline falls within it. Newsom ...
In last year’s decision in Eon Corp. IP Holdings LLC v. Silver Spring Network, Inc. 815 F.3d 1314, 1320 (Fed. Cir. 2016), the Federal Circuit reversed the District Court’s jury instruction that the ...
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