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Patent opinions from the Eastern District of Texas and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

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Adopted in Part

These are orders adopting part of a magistrate judge's report and recommendation while declining or modifying the rest. They arise when a party objects to specific portions of a report: the district judge reviews the objected-to recommendations de novo and may accept, reject, or modify them, while the unchallenged remainder is reviewed only for clear error. The resulting order is the operative ruling, and it must be read together with the underlying report to see which recommendations survived and which were displaced. Both documents are published in this collection where both were issued. The adopting order alone rarely tells the whole story.

86 opinions and orders.