Early this spring, in Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. v. Promega, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reviewed a district court opinion on the validity of an issued patent 1. The court ...

One’s tense will vary depending on what one is trying to convey within their paper or section of their paper. For example, the tense may change between the methods section and the discussion section.

The verb jump is changing tense. Non-fiction close non-fictionWriting that is about real events and facts, rather than stories that have been invented. writers also use the present tense when they are ...