SAN FRANCISCO — The match-up of veteran advocates Edward Reines and Seth Waxman earlier this year before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set in motion a series of events that would rock the patent bar.

In a glowing email sent the day after arguments in Promega v. Life Technologies Corp., then Chief Judge Randall Rader relayed a colleague’s praise for Reines’ performance. “She said Seth had a whole battery of assistants passing him notes and keeping him on track, ” Rader wrote to Reines, apparently referencing the comments of Judge Sharon Prost. “ You were alone and IMPRESSIVE in every way.

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