The judge was responding to a question on how women could improve their courtroom skills. Patel was a featured speaker at the American Intellectual Property Law Association's spring meeting held in San Francisco last week. She devoted most of her talk to Markman hearings, which are held prior to a trial to determine the scope of a patent's claims. Patel has gained some notoriety on the subject, thanks to a federal judge in Massachusetts. In February she and Chief Judge William Young were on a panel together.
Timing is everything.
But he put in a complete attribution. Court chief executive officer Gordon Park-Li said the clerk consolidation is one more step in finalizing the unification of the municipal and superior courts. He said plans call for moving clerks and their operations out of Room 306, where felony files are stored, and Room 201, where misdemeanor records are kept, and relocating them to Room 101 on the ground floor. Room 101 clerks now handle traffic matters only. Computer operations will be shifted to Room 306.