Decision in fracking suit shows importance of assessing general knowledge in patent cases: lawyer

By Ian Burns ( July 30, 2018, 9:22 AM EDT) -- A recent Federal Court of Appeal decision that overturned a lower court patent infringement ruling is being called illustrative of how a mistake in determining the common general knowledge of a person of an ordinary skill of the art (POSITA) in patent cases can have a “cascading effect” on other parts of the decision....