{"id":533,"date":"2014-03-04T09:54:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T14:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=533"},"modified":"2014-03-04T23:43:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T04:43:50","slug":"board-explains-observations-on-cross-examination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"Board Explains Observations on Cross Examination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an Order for the Conduct of the Proceedings in <em>Atrium Medical Corp. v. Davol, Inc.<\/em>, [IPR2013-00189], Paper 48 (February 28, 2014), the\u00a0Board advised the patent owner that each item included as an observation on cross-examination should be precise, preferably no more than one short sentence in the explanation of relevance. Observations on cross-examination are not meant to serve the purpose of an argumentative surreply. The relevance of record portions noted, relative to the observed cross-examination testimony, should &#8220;jump-out&#8221; upon notice. If more than one or two sentences are required to explain such relevance, the observations likely is improper.<\/p>\n<p>An observation (or response) is not an opportunity to raise new issues, to re-argue issues, or to pursue objections. Each observation should be in the following form:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In exhibit __, on page __, lines __, the witness testified __. This testimony is relevant to the __ on page __ of __. The testimony is relevant because __.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The entire observation should not exceed one short paragraph. The Board may decline consideration or entry of excessively long or argumentative observations (or responses). A rule of reason applies to so called &#8220;combined&#8221; observations of more than one item.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an Order for the Conduct of the Proceedings in Atrium Medical Corp. v. Davol, Inc., [IPR2013-00189], Paper 48 (February 28, 2014), the\u00a0Board advised the patent owner that each item included as an observation on cross-examination should be precise, preferably &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=533\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ipr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ZIpB-8B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}