| Synthetic
Diamond Patent Case Features 2 Man
Affidavit and Judge Rakoff Zingers in SDNY
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 24 – A patent dispute
about synthetic diamonds,
complete with a rare
two-person affidavit and Hague
Convention requests to India,
resulted in a virtual / Zoom
oral argument on November 24
before U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Judge Jed S. Rakoff.
Inner City Press
covered it - as much as it
could.
Counsel
repeatedly asked Judge Rakoff,
Can I share my screen? It has
confidential information which
I'll avoid describing on the
record.
So
listening by phone, it was
difficult to assess the
strength of some of the
arguments. But there were
zingers from Judge Rakoff, as
when he demanded to know how
it was that two person signed
an affidavit - would they also
take the witness stand
together?
It may not come
to that - as to the case, it
seems all there is left to
argue about is the attorneys
fees.
At the end,
saying he had another
proceeding at 4:30, Judge
Rakoff told the lawyers that
the night before he had told
his wife that he would be
hearing argument in an
interesting patent case.
After he
responded to her request for a
summary of the case, she
asked, You call that
interesting?
It got a big
laugh, a near perfect walk-out
line, even on the Zoom.
Decision was as they say
reserved.
The case is, or
was, Carnegie Institution of
Washington et al v. Pure Grown
Diamonds, Inc. et al.,
20-cv-189 (Rakoff)
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