The CAFC's web site has a new look, and in
that department it's definitely an improvement over the old CAFC site - the new look is much classier.
It also appears to me that it provides more
information than the old site, though I haven't accessed an archived version to
compare. I'm not yet sold on the new format
for displaying decisions, but I may yet come around to it. You used to be able to pull a list with 6
months' or a year's worth of decisions at a time, based on the year the
decision was given, as well search by party name or case number. You can still search by name or case number,
but you can't search by year – you can go back a day, a week, a month, three
months, six months, a year, or list every decision since October 2004. But you can't list, say, only decisions from
the first half of 2005. Moreover, with
the new format, there are at most 50 decisions per page – that's 122 pages (and
counting) to possibly sift through. On
the other hand, the new search engine doesn't need to be told to look for
partial words – when I plugged in "Fuji" in the hopes of finding a
series of cases involving Fujifilm and reconstructed cameras, all the decisions
I was looking for (since 2004) came up. So
maybe the new format will prove easier to use than the old one.