United States Ninth Circuit

In a contract dispute over ownership of a patent, a judgment resulting from a jury verdict in favor of defendant-doctor is reversed and remanded where both an agency jury instruction and a corroboration jury instruction were given in error, and each was prejudicial.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/15/2008
• Decided 05/15/2008
• Published 05/15/2008

Judges

• TROTT, Circuit Judge:, Before:  WARREN J. FERGUSON, STEPHEN S. TROTT, and SIDNEY R. THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gordon C. Atkinson and Linda F. Callison, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, Palo Alto, CA, for the intervenor-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark E. Haddad, Sidley Austin LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant-appellee.