Legal Opinion
Wilson Sporting Goods Company v. Hillerich & Bradsby Co.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided March 23, 2006No. 20-2348PublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RADER, Circuit Judge.
In a stipulated Rule 54 judgment, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois dismissed with prejudice Wilson’s contentions that softball and baseball bats sold by Hillerich & Bradsby (H & B) infringed claims 1, 15, and 18 of U.S. Patent No. 5,415,398 (granted May 16, 1995) (the ’398 patent). In this judgment, the court also granted H & B’s declaratory judgment action that its bats do not infringe the ’398 patent, but dismissed H & B’s cause of action for declaratory judgment of invalidity of the ’398 patent, and awarded costs, exclusive of…
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