For more than a decade, pioneering appellate advocates have been submitting briefs on electronic disc instead of handing over a standard bulky file that can easily run over a thousand pages.

The Federal Circuit in Washington D.C., which hears patent appeals, was one of the first to invite digital presentations. After a Boston intellectual property firm broke the ice in the mid-1990s, lawyers praised digital briefs as a convenient way to display animations of technically complex inventions, and to include video clips and other visual aids.

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