Chip Maker Gets $35 Million Judgment

Neoflexycurrent writes "The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a $35 million judgment against Clear Logic for violation of the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984. The court concluded that the jury properly rejected Clear Logic's argument that it had legitimately reverse engineered Plaintiff Altera Corporation's mask work design to create cheaper application-specific integrated circuits."

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Gee, What a Surprise - 9th Circuit

[MikeyTheK]

So here we have the 9th Circuit - yes, that 9th Circuit, making it up as it goes. If any of you have been following this, you might ask "How the heck was adequate correction provided to the jury, when the initial instructions regarding reverse engineering were wrong, and the later, more general instructions, were proper?". I have no idea. The part of the instructions that specifically deal with the issue at hand which were wrong seem to clearly specify the action the jury should take.
It's like having the regular print in a license agreement say one thing, and way later in the document have it say something else, but in a very general, nondescript way.
Welcome to the 9th. Does anybody know if they are still the most overturned Circuit?