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Model Patent Jury Instructions
prepared by
The National Jury Instruction Project
June 17, 2009Members of the Project
Kenneth C. Bass IIIDonald R. DunnerPamela Banner KrupkaRoderick R. McKelvieTeresa Stanek ReaEdward R. Reines, ChairJudge Patti B. SarisJudge T. John WardJudge Ronald M.Whyte
 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................- 1 -1 PRELIMINARY INSTRUCTIONS...............................................................................- 3 -1.1 WHAT A PATENT IS AND HOW ONE IS OBTAINED................................- 3 -1.2 THE PATENT INVOLVED IN THIS CASE....................................................- 6 -1.3 THE POSITIONS OF THE PARTIES...............................................................- 7 -1.4 BURDEN OF PROOF—PREPONDERANCE OF THE EVIDENCE..............- 8 -1.5 BURDEN OF PROOF—CLEAR AND CONVINCING EVIDENCE..............- 9 -1.6 GLOSSARY OF PATENT AND TECHNICAL TERMS...............................- 10 -2 FINAL INSTRUCTIONS.............................................................................................- 13 -2.1 CONTENTIONS OF THE PARTIES..............................................................- 13 -3 INFRINGEMENT.........................................................................................................- 15 -3.1 DIRECT INFRINGEMENT—GENERALLY.................................................- 15 -3.2 DIRECT INFRINGEMENT—LITERAL INFRINGEMENT.........................- 16 -3.3 THE MEANING OF CLAIM TERMS.............................................................- 17 -3.4 OPEN-ENDED OR “COMPRISING” CLAIMS.............................................- 18 -3.5 “CONSISTING ESSENTIALLY OF” CLAIMS.............................................- 19 -3.6 “CONSISTING OF” CLAIMS.........................................................................- 20 -3.7 INFRINGEMENT OF DEPENDENT CLAIMS..............................................- 21 -3.8 DIRECT INFRINGEMENT—DOCTRINE OF EQUIVALENTS..................- 22 -3.9 DIRECT INFRINGEMENT—MEANS-PLUS-FUNCTION CLAIMS..........- 24 -3.10 INDIRECT INFRINGEMENT.........................................................................- 27 -3.11 INDUCING PATENT INFRINGEMENT.......................................................- 28 -3.12 CONTRIBUTORY INFRINGEMENT............................................................- 29 -3.13 JOINT DIRECT INFRINGEMENT.................................................................- 30 -4 WILLFUL INFRINGEMENT......................................................................................- 31 -4.1 WILLFUL INFRINGEMENT..........................................................................- 31 -5 INVALIDITY...............................................................................................................- 33 -5.1 INVALIDITY—GENERALLY.......................................................................- 33 -5.2 WRITTEN DESCRIPTION..............................................................................- 34 -5.3 ENABLEMENT...............................................................................................- 35 -5.4 BEST MODE....................................................................................................- 37 -5.5 ANTICIPATION—PUBLICLY USED OR KNOWN, OR PREVIOUSLYPUBLISHED.....................................................................................................- 39 -5.6 ANTICIPATION—MADE OR INVENTED BY SOMEONE ELSE.............- 41 -5.7 ANTICIPATION—STATUTORY BARS.......................................................- 43 -5.8 IMPROPER INVENTORSHIP........................................................................- 45 -5.9 OBVIOUSNESS...............................................................................................- 47 -5.10 OBVIOUSNESS—(Alternative)......................................................................- 53 -5.11 SCOPE AND CONTENT OF PRIOR ART.....................................................- 55 -
 
 - ii -5.12 DIFFERENCES OVER THE PRIOR ART......................................................- 56 -5.13 LEVEL OF ORDINARY SKILL.....................................................................- 57 -6 DAMAGES...................................................................................................................- 58 -6.1 DAMAGES—GENERALLY...........................................................................- 58 -6.2 DAMAGES—BURDEN OF PROOF..............................................................- 59 -6.3 DAMAGES—WHEN DAMAGES BEGIN.....................................................- 60 -6.4 DAMAGES—LOST PROFITS........................................................................- 62 -6.5 REASONABLE ROYALTY—ENTITLEMENT............................................- 64 -6.6 REASONABLE ROYALTY—DEFINITION.................................................- 65 -APPENDICES—MODEL VERDICT FORMS.......................................................................- 67 -Verdict Form A.............................................................................................................- 68 -Verdict Form B—Special Verdict Form.......................................................................- 70 -
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