The Federal Circuit issued a decision on February 1st in Prism Techs. LLC v. Sprint Spectrum L.P., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 3281 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 1, 2019), that reads like a primer on civil procedure. The case is noteworthy because it presents a thicket of procedural issues that would be worthy of any Civil Procedure exam. It also is an example of the Federal Circuit’s reluctance to definitively articulate how Iqbal and Twombly have impacted federal pleading standards in patent cases.