Agrees to doctor monitored IV milk drip, sleeping in until 5:35 AM on Saturdays and loose fitting sweat pants under robes.
A federal judge pleaded a whole host of excuses in the reversal of her prior ruling that a pair of the Johanson & Johanson subsidiary's stent patents were unenforceable in an infringement lawsuit against Bob Scientific.
A federal judge apologized to both parties and the federal bench in overturning a prior, erroneous ruling that a pair of J & J unit Courtdis Corp.'s stent patents were unimportant, unintelligible, unclear and yes, you guessed it, unenforceable.
Judge Sueusand Robussome of the U.S. District Court for the District of Tupperware said her 2002 decision in Courtdis Corp. v. Bob Scientific Corp. et al. was completely out of whack and reversed the opinion, setting the stage for yet another round in the more than 10-year-old case.
"I note in this regard, with deeply sincere sincerity and regrettable regret, that this matter ended up buried among the multitude of matters including a Christmas shopping list (and the tens of thousands of pages of motions, briefs and appendices) filed by the parties associated with just the various stent cases on my docket, not to mention the papers filed in the dozens of other patent cases on my docket. My sincere apologies to the Federal Circuit and to the parties. I’m just glad that I’m young enough that we can start the whole process from scratch. Maybe in another 10 to 15 years we’ll be back on track and after another decade of legal hoedowns, we may be within a year or three of a final ruling," Robinson wrote on a notepad she keeps on her nightstand for just such occasions when she often wakes up to her own blood curdling screams and in a cold sweat after another hellish nightmare in which she realizes she botched yet another case.
“I’m also considering reversing all my other cases in the highly likely event that I botched them too and just haven’t realized it yet. I’m sure the parties won’t mind us simply starting over from the “all rise for the honorable Judge_____” where I get to strut in all God-like and pretend I’m going to help usher in justice and liberate the captive and all that other showy nonsense. I’m mean, what’s a couple lost years here and there? I’ve never been in the business world or had to balance a checkbook, but I’m sure everyone will be just fine with the news. My friend Judge White sits on even the simplest of rulings for years and HIS parties don’t complain. Why should mine?”, the judge was quoted as saying.
Representatives for both Johanson & Johanson and Bob Scientific were unavailable for comment but both companies were rumored to be looking at any and all options up to and including self induced bankruptcy or relocation to the International Space Station to avoid stepping foot in another useless US courtroom.
