The Court of Appeal has fixed a date for their appellate hearing for June 10, 2013.
Her appellate hearing commenced in the Tokyo High Court on May 8, 2008.
A showdown in the long-running case, seen as a test of intellectual property rights here, is coming at an appellate hearing on Oct. 17.
(To exchange authorities before an appellate hearing is a practice of the profession).
However, at the appellate hearing, the government attorney conceded, "We had a murder.
The law provided for contested forfeitures to be heard by a panel of three judges, similar to an appellate hearing.
Patterson filed no brief on appeal and did not appear at oral argument for the appellate hearing.
The Court has two programs which are designed to dispose of appeals without the need for a full appellate hearing.
Two days later, a panel of judges from the Ninth Circuit issued an emergency stay, pending an appellate hearing.
Today's decision, the result of that appellate hearing, which was held in October, supported many of Judge Patel's conclusions.