The Secret Circuit

As students in Common Law Legal System recently learned, the United States Court of Appeals is divided into 13 circuits. Eleven of the courts are divided regionally, leaving two court that we did not really discuss in class. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is one of these two courts, and definitely the one that even American-educated lawyers may not fully understand. The San Francisco Chronicle recently ran a review of the book The Secret Circuit, which does a nice job of quickly summarizing the book's main premise: what exactly does this court do? If you are interested in patent law and want to understand the U.S. Court of Appeals more fully, you may want to give this book review a quick read over.