ALEXANDRIA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Judge Andrew J. Guilford has been recognized with the prestigious 2018 American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the Ninth Circuit. He will be presented with the award byChief Judge Sidney Thomas at the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference in Anaheim, California, in July.
Cases would continue to be randomly assigned. But after a patent case was randomly assigned, if the assigned judge rejected the case it would be reassigned to a judge participating in the patent program. Chief Judge Holderman is a proponent of the pilot program. SOP1(III)(B) also addresses the important issue of conflicts of interest. Over the last six years there have been instances when Administrative Patent Judges (APJs) of the PTAB have decided cases.
Guilford has been a United States district judge since 2006. He has sat by designation with the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is one of six Patent Pilot Program Judges in the Central District of California. The ten-year program, which is in effect in fourteen federal district courts, is designed to enhance judges’ expertise in patent cases. He is president of the District Judges Association.
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Co-founder and Master of the Bench in the Howard T. Markey Intellectual Property American Inn of Court in Irvine, California, Guilford served as the Inn’s first president from 2013 to 2015. He is an honorary member of the Judge Paul R. Michel IP American Inn of Court, and of the Pepperdine/Strauss American Inn of Court for Dispute Resolution.
Before becoming a district judge, Guilford was a business trial lawyer with Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton for 30 years. He handled a wide variety of cases relating to intellectual property, unfair competition, finance, and professional liability. He was elected a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers in 1992 and teaches a course on trial advocacy at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law.
As a Regent Scholar at UCLA, Guilford received his AB degree in economics summa cum laude in 1972 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his JD degree from UCLA in 1975 and was an associate editor of the UCLA Law Review.
The American Inns of Court, headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, inspires the legal community to advance the rule of law by achieving the highest level of professionalism through example, education, and mentoring. The organization’s membership includes more than 31,000 federal, state, and local judges; lawyers; law professors; and law students in nearly 380 chapters nationwide and more than 100,000 alumni members. More information is available at www.innsofcourt.org.
In December 2004, the Federal Circuit began a pilot program to announce the composition of appellate panels the week before holding oral arguments. This program is now in jeopardy.
On March 10, the Federal Circuit heard oral arguments in Apotex v. Pfizer. The New York district court had dismissed Apotex’s declaratory judgment action due to a lack of case and controversy. At the district court level, this case fell in line with the recent CAFC decision Pfizer v. Tevaholding that an ANDA filing does not, by itself, create a reasonable apprehension of suit. In dissent in Teva, Judge Mayer argued that the statute does provide that an ANDA filing constitutes an act of infringement sufficient to trigger a justiciable controversy. As it turns out, Judge Mayer was also a panel member for the Apotex v. Pfizer appeal, along with Judges Plager and Gajarsa.
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Keith Scala, who attended the Apotex v. Pfizer oral hearing noted that, according to counsel’s arguments, Pfizer had executed a covenant not to sue Apotex a few days before the appellate arguments — but only after learning that Judge Mayer would be a member of the appellate panel. The covenant not to sue is seen to greatly strengthen Pfizer’s argument that Apotex lacked jurisdiction to bring the DJ action. However, executing the covenant may have been unnecessary had the appellate panel comprised a group more like that in Pfizer v. Teva.
According to Scala, at one point, Judge Mayer leaned over, looked squarely at Pfizer’s counsel and said,
“maybe posting paneling is a very, very bad thing.”
Judge Mayer was, of course, referring to the the CAFC procedure of identifying the composition of panels several days in advance of the hearing.
A decision will be expected in this case within the next few months.
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