Legal Opinion
Zygo Corporation v. Wyko Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided May 15, 1996No. 94-1445PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NIES, Senior Circuit Judge.
Wyko Corporation appeals the final judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona (Civil Action No. CIV 88-454-T-JLQ), which held Zygo Corporation’s United States Patent No. 4,201,473 (“the ’473 patent”) for an interferometer system not invalid and infringed by three models of Wyko interferometers, resulting in an award of $2,668,710.43 in damages calculated in part as lost profits and in part as a reasonable royalty. We hold that the district court clearly erred in finding that one model, the Wyko 6000 Redesign, infringed under the…
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