If there’s one thing that can be said about the legal landscape in 2014, it’s that it was the year of intellectual property.

The often-arcane subject, once reserved for a small subset of legal practitioners operating within a closed universe, had gradually entered the public consciousness with stories about the work of patent trolls and the stifling of innovation. Public outrage meant that IP attorneys could no longer work in the comfortable, self-contained world to which they’d grown accustomed. And in 2014, many of their legal battles found their way to the nation’s most visible and public legal arena: the U.S. Supreme Court.

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