{"id":11257,"date":"2016-07-13T15:44:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T20:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/?p=11257"},"modified":"2016-07-14T15:05:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T20:05:42","slug":"students-draw-on-rare-documents-for-u-s-supreme-court-filing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2016\/07\/13\/students-draw-on-rare-documents-for-u-s-supreme-court-filing\/","title":{"rendered":"Students draw on rare documents for U.S. Supreme Court filing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":12,\"permalink\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mitchellhamline.edu\\\/news\\\/2016\\\/07\\\/13\\\/students-draw-on-rare-documents-for-u-s-supreme-court-filing\\\/\"}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-11257 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/07\/DSC02703-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11259\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/07\/DSC02703-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"4240,2832\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;keywords&quot;:&quot;Array&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC02703\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Professor Carl Moy and his research assistants. (L to R) Alex Gutnik, Joe Vaccaro, Wojciech Jankiewicz, Carl Moy, Vince Rotty, Lars Gunnerson, Karen Beckman &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/07\/DSC02703-1-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/07\/DSC02703-1-1024x684.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/07\/DSC02703-1-400x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/07\/DSC04301.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11261\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/07\/DSC04301.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"6000,4000\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;keywords&quot;:&quot;Array&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC04301\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Prof. Moy and students not only wrote the brief, but they printed and bound it on campus. &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/07\/DSC04301-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/07\/DSC04301-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/07\/DSC04301-400x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/07\/DSC02715.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11260\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/07\/DSC02715.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3008,2000\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;keywords&quot;:&quot;Array&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC02715\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Some of the 19th century books students relied on to create their brief. &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/07\/DSC02715-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/07\/DSC02715-1024x681.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/07\/DSC02715-400x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>A group of Mitchell Hamline students filed a legal brief in a patent case taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court in June, giving them a type of real-world experience available to only a handful of law students across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The students were uniquely qualified to provide information to the court because of the school\u2019s focus and expertise in teaching patent law and because they had access to patent decisions from the 1800s housed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/library\/\">Warren E. Burger Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The students, all research assistants for Mitchell Hamline law professor <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/biographies\/person\/r-carl-moy\/\">Carl Moy<\/a><\/strong>, filed the brief in the case, <em>Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC v. Lee, <\/em>on Feb. 29.<\/p>\n<p>The legal document goes by the Latin name \u201camicus curiae\u201d, which translates as \u201cfriend of the court\u201d. Amicus briefs are filed by parties who aren\u2019t litigants in a case but feel the information they offer could be helpful as judges weigh their decisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main purpose of these is to assist the court,\u201d said Moy. \u201cWe are in a unique position at Mitchell Hamline because as an academic institution we can look at these questions more deeply and from a larger systematic way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Moy\u2019s students, the brief was a chance to research, write, print, and publish a hardcopy legal document for nation\u2019s highest court, all under an extremely tight deadline. The window to start and finish an amicus brief is only seven days long.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou learn to work together as a team in very stressful circumstances,\u201d Moy said. \u201cWhich is a critical skill if you\u2019re going to be involved in litigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alex Gutnik, <\/strong>who will be a third-year student in the fall, said the work was stressful but provided invaluable experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom contacting the parties, to forming the arguments, to making sure you have the periods at the end of a sentence, and eventually making these books and actually sending them to the correct parties and locations \u2026 it\u2019s quite a process.\u201d Gutnik said.<\/p>\n<p>In the week they had to research and write the brief, Mitchell Hamline students spent long hours digging through century-old patent decisions in the Burger Library.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Karen Beckman<\/strong>, another rising 3L, said access to those documents provided key information for the brief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re very rare,\u201d Beckman said. \u201cNot a lot of schools have them, or law firms have access to them. We were able to dig back to the root source of where these decisions came from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The students\u2019 amicus brief was one of the many documents Supreme Court justices had at their fingertips when making a decision in <em>Cuozzo. <\/em>The Court\u2019s decision <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/15pdf\/15-446_ihdk.pdf\">was released on June 21<\/a>. It reaffirmed a United States Patent Office regulation that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipwatchdog.com\/2016\/06\/20\/supreme-court-cuozzo-speed-technologies\/id=70241\/\">use the broadest reasonable interpretation, known as the BRI standard, in patent challenges<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Mitchell Hamline students filed a legal brief in a patent case taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court in June, giving them a type of real-world experience available to only a handful of law students across the country. The students were uniquely qualified to provide information to the court because of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/2016\/07\/13\/students-draw-on-rare-documents-for-u-s-supreme-court-filing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Students draw on rare documents for U.S. Supreme Court filing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4909,"featured_media":11258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-features","8":"category-news","9":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4909"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}