1.1  General Preliminary Instruction [Amended 12/10/19]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
1.2  Burden of Proof - Clear and Convincing Evidence    
1.3  Official English Translation/Interpretation    
1.4  Jury Questions    
1.5  Interim Statements    
1.6.1  Copyright - Preliminary Instructions    
1.6.2  Copyright - Introduction to Copyright Claim [Amended 10/04/21]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  

2.1  Stipulations    
2.2  Use of Depositions    
2.3  Use of Recorded Conversations and Transcripts    
2.4  Interim Statements    
2.5  Judicial Notice    
2.6  Use of Interrogatories    
2.7  In-Trial Instructions on News Coverage    
2.8  Civil Allen Charge    

3.1  Introduction    
3.2  The Duty to Follow Instructions - No Corporate Party Involved    
3.2.2  The Duty to Follow Instructions - Corporate Party Involved    
3.2.3  The Duty to Follow Instructions - Government Entity or Agency Involved    
3.3  Consideration of Direct and Circumstantial Evidence; Argument of Counsel; Comments by the Court    
3.4  Credibility of Witnesses    
3.5.1  Impeachment of Witnesses because of Inconsistent Statements    
3.5.2  Impeachment of Witnesses because of Inconsistent Statements or Felony Conviction    
3.6.1  Expert Witness    
3.6.2  Expert Witness - When Expert Fees Represent a Significant Portion of the Witness's Income    
3.7.1  Responsibility for Proof - Plaintiff's Claim[s], Cross Claims, Counterclaims - Preponderance of the Evidence    
3.7.2  Responsibility for Proof - Affirmative Defense Preponderance of the Evidence    
3.8.1  Duty to Deliberate when only the Plaintiff Claims Damages    
3.8.2  Duty to Deliberate when both Plaintiff and Defendant Claim Damages or when Damages are not an Issue    
3.9  Election of Foreperson Explanation of Verdict Form[s]    

4.1  Public Employee - First Amendment Claim - Discharge or Failure to Promote - Free Speech on Matter of Public Concern [Amended 01/24/19]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
4.2  Public Employee - First Amendment Claim - Discharge or Failure to Promote - Political Disloyalty or Key Employee [Amended 01/24/19]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
4.3  Public Employee - Equal-Protection Claim - Race/Sex Discrimination - Hostile Work Environment - Supervisor Harassment (Separate Liability for Public Body and Individual Supervisors)    
4.4  Public Employee - Equal-Protection Claim - Race/Sex Discrimination - Hostile Work Environment - Co-worker Harassment (Separate Liability for Public Body and Individual Supervisors)    
4.5  Title VII - Civil Rights Act - Discrimination - Discharge or Failure to Promote - Including "Same Decision" Defense    
4.6  Title VII - Civil Rights Act - Workplace Harassment by Supervisor - No Tangible Employment Action Taken (with Affirmative Defense by Employer) [Amended 01/24/19]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
4.7  Title VII - Civil Rights Act - Workplace Harassment by Co-worker or Third Party - No Tangible Employment Action Taken [Amended 01/24/19]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
4.8  Title VII - Civil Rights Act - Workplace Harassment - Unwelcome Sexual Advances - Tangible Employment Action Taken    
4.9  Civil Rights Act - 42 U.S.C. § 1981 - Race Discrimination in Employment - Discharge or Failure to Promote    
4.10  Age Discrimination in Employment Act - 29 U.S.C. §§ 621-634    
4.11  Americans with Disabilities Act - Disparate-Treatment Claim - 42 U.S.C. §§ 12101-12117    
4.12  Americans with Disabilities Act - Reasonable Accommodation Claim - 42 U.S.C. §§ 12101-12117    
4.13  Equal Pay Act - 29 U.S.C. §§ 206(d)(1) and (3)    
4.14  Fair Labor Standards Act - 29 U.S.C. §§ 201 et seq. [Amended 11/27/23]    
Prior Instructions: [Amended 10/04/21]  
 [Adopted 05/29/13]  
4.15  Family and Medical Leave Act - Retaliation Claims - 29 U.S.C. §§ 2601-2654    
4.16  Family and Medical Leave Act - Interference Claims - (NEW) - 29 U.S.C. §§ 2601-2654    
4.17  Employee Claim against Employer and Union (Vaca v. Sipes)    
4.18  USERRA - 38 U.S.C. § 4311(a) - USERRA Discrimination - Including "Same Decision" Defense    
4.19  USERRA - 38 U.S.C. § 4311(b) - USERRA Retaliation    
4.20  USERRA - 38 U.S.C. § 4312 - Reemployment    
4.22  Retaliation - Section 1981, Title VII, ADEA, ADA, and FLSA [Amended 11/27/23]    
Prior Instructions: [Amended 10/04/21]  
 [Adopted 05/29/13]  
4.23  Miscellaneous Issues - Constructive Discharge    
4.24  Miscellaneous Issues - Employee or Independent Contractor    
4.25  Miscellaneous Issues - Joint Employers    
4.26  Miscellaneous Issues - Alter Ego - Corporation as Alter Ego of Stockholder    
4.27  Miscellaneous Issues - Alter Ego - Subsidiary as Alter Ego of Parent Corporation    

5.0  Introductory Annotations [Amended 01/02/18]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
5.1  First Amendment Retaliation [Adopted 01/02/18]    
5.2  First Amendment Claim – Prisoner Alleging Retaliation or Denial of Access to Courts [Amended 01/02/18]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
5.3  Fourth Amendment Claim – Private Person Alleging Unlawful Arrest, Unlawful Search, or Unlawful Terry Stop [Amended 01/02/18]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
5.4  Fourth or Fourteenth Amendment Claim – Private Person or Pretrial Detainee Alleging Excessive Force [Adopted 01/02/18]    
5.5  Fourth Amendment Claim – Malicious Prosecution [Adopted 01/02/18]    
5.6  Eighth Amendment Claim – Convicted Prisoner Alleging Excessive Force [Amended 01/02/18]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
5.7  Arrestee, Pretrial Detainee, or Convicted Prisoner Alleging Failure to Intervene [Adopted 01/02/18]    
5.8  Eighth or Fourteenth Amendment Claim – Convicted Prisoner or Pretrial Detainee Alleging Deliberate Indifference to Serious Medical Need [Amended 01/02/18]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
5.9  Eighth or Fourteenth Amendment Claim – Failure to Protect [Amended 01/02/18]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
5.10  Government Entity Liability (Incorporate into Instructions for Claims against Individual Defendants) [Amended 01/02/18]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
5.11  Government Entity Liability for Failure to Train or Supervise (Incorporate into Instructions for Claims against Individual Defendants) [Amended 01/02/18]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
5.12  Supervisor Liability (Incorporate into Instructions for Claims against Individual Defendants) [Amended 01/02/18]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
5.13  Damages [Adopted 01/02/18]    
5.14  Liability of Private Actors Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983: Nexus/Joint Action [Adopted 11/27/23]    
5.15  Liability of Private Actors Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983: State Compulsion [Adopted 11/27/23]    
AppA  Special Interrogatories [Amended 01/02/18]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
AppB  Special Interrogatories - For Cases Brought by Non-Prisoners (Prison-Litigation Reform does not apply) [Amended 01/02/18]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
AppC  Special Interrogatories - For Cases brought by Prisoners (Prison Litigation Reform Applies) [Amended 01/02/18]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  

6.1  Device, Scheme, or Artifice to Defraud - 15 U.S.C. § 78j(b) - Rule 10b-5(a) - 17 C.F.R. §§ 240.10b-5(a)    
6.2  Misrepresentation or Omission of Material Facts - 15 U.S.C. § 78j(b) - Rule 10b-5(b) - 17 C.F.R. §§ 240.10b-5(b)    
6.3.1  Insider Trading - Private-Plaintiff Version - 15 U.S.C. §§ 10(b) and 20A - Rule 10b-5(a) - 17 C.F.R. § 240.10b-5    
6.3.2  Insider Trading - SEC Version - 15 U.S.C. § 10(b) - Rule 10b-5(a) - 17 C.F.R. § 240.10b-5    
6.4  Fraudulent Practice or Course of Dealing - 15 U.S.C. § 78j(b) - Rule 10b-5(c) - 17 C.F.R. § 240.10b-5(c)    
6.5  Solicitation of Proxies - § 14(a) - 15 U.S.C. § 77n - Rule 14a-9 - 17 C.F.R. § 14a-9    
6.6  Sale of an Unregistered Security in Violation of § 5 - Section 12(a)(1) - 15 U.S.C. § 771    
6.7  Offer and Sale of Unregistered Securities - SEC Version - Sections 5(a) & 5(c) - 15 U.S.C. §§ 77e(a) and 77e(c)    
6.8  Fraud in the Offer and Sale of a Security Through a Device, Scheme, or Artifice to Defraud - SEC Version - Section 17(a)(1) - 15 U.S.C. § 77q(a)(1)    
6.9  Misrepresentation or Omission in the Offer or Sale of a Security - SEC Version - Section 17(a)(2) - 15 U.S.C. § 77q(a)(2)    

7.1  Acquiring an Interest in an Enterprise by Use of Income - 18 U.S.C. § 1962(a)    
7.2  Acquiring or Maintaining an Interest in or Control of an Enterprise - 18 U.S.C. § 1962(b)    
7.3  Conduct the Affairs of the Enterprise - 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c)    
7.4  Conspiracy to Conduct the Affairs of the Enterprise - 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d)    
7.5  Framework for Special Interrogatories to the Jury - 18 U.S.C. § 1962(a)-(c)    

8.1  General Instruction (Comparative Negligence Defense)    
8.2  Maintenance and Cure    

9.1  Validity - General Charge    
9.2  Validity - Originality    
9.3  Validity - Copyright Notice - Pre-Berne Convention Implementation Act - Alternate Version [Amended 07/19/17]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
9.4  Validity - Effect of Registration    
9.5  Validity - Registration of a Derivative or Collective Work    
9.6  Validity - Registration - Supplemental Registration    
9.7  Validity - How Obtained (For Use Where No Presumption of Validity Applies)    
9.8  Validity - Invalid Copyright Registration - Fraud on the Copyright Office    
9.9  Validity - Compilations and Collective Works    
9.10  Validity - Ideas and Expression [Amended 07/19/17]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
9.11  Validity - The Merger Doctrine    
9.12  Ownership - General Charge    
9.13  Ownership - Individual Authorship    
9.14  Ownership - Joint Authorship    
9.15  Ownership - Work Made for Hire [Amended 07/19/17]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
9.16  Ownership - Transfer    
9.17  Infringement - Introduction to Elements    
9.18  Infringement - Access    
9.19  Infringement - Substantial Similarity [Amended 07/19/17]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
9.20  Infringement - Contributory Infringement    
9.21  Infringement - Vicarious Infringement    
9.22  Infringement - Software [Amended 07/19/17]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
9.23  Infringement - Software Compatibility    
9.24  Defenses - Independent Creation    
9.25  Defenses - Affirmative Defense - Fair Use [Amended 07/19/17]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
9.26  Defenses - Affirmative Defense - First Sale    
9.27  Defenses - Affirmative Defense - Implied License    
9.28  Defenses - Affirmative Defense - Copyright Estoppel (Advisory Jury) [Amended 07/19/17]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
9.29  Defenses - Affirmative Defense - Statute of Limitations    
9.30  Damages - General Charge [Amended 07/19/17]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
9.31  Damages - Actual Damages [Amended 07/19/17]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
9.32  Damages - Statutory Damages [Amended 07/19/17]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
9.33  Damages - Disgorgement of Profits [Adopted 07/19/17]    

10.1  Trademark Infringement - Registered Trademark [Amended 07/19/17]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
10.2  Trademark Infringement - Unregistered Trademark [Amended 07/19/17]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
10.3  Defenses to Claim of Infringement of a Trademark [Amended 10/04/21]    
Prior Instructions: [Amended 07/19/17]  
 [Adopted 05/29/13]  
10.4  Counterclaims for Cancellation of a Federal Trademark Registration [Amended 07/19/17]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
10.5  Trademark Dilution [Amended 07/19/17]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
10.6  Trademark Counterfeiting [Amended 07/19/17]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  
10.7  Trademarks - Violation of 15 U.S.C. § 1125(d) - The Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act [Amended 11/27/23]    
Prior Instructions: [Amended 07/19/17]  
 [Adopted 05/29/13]  
10.8  Trademarks - False Advertising [Amended 07/19/17]    
Prior Instructions: [Adopted 05/29/13]  

11.1  Trade Secrets – Misappropriation of a Trade Secret [Adopted 07/19/17]    
11.2  Trade Secrets – Affirmative Defense – Statute of Limitations [Adopted 07/19/17]    
11.3  Trade Secrets – Affirmative Defense – Lawful Means of Acquisition [Adopted 07/19/17]    
11.4  Trade Secrets – Damages – Compensatory [Adopted 07/19/17]    
11.5  Trade Secrets – Damages – Exemplary [Adopted 07/19/17]