Legal Opinion

Strattec Security Corporation v. General Automotive Specialty Company, Inc. And All-Lock Company, Inc.

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Decided September 16, 1997No. 96-1024PublishedCited by 20 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

RICH, Circuit Judge.

General Automotive Specialty Company, Inc. and All-Lock Company, Inc. (collectively General Automotive) appeal from two decisions of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas: (1) a judgment that General Automotive’s after-market automobile key literally infringes Strattec Security Corporation’s (Strattec’s) U.S. Patent No. 4,250,482 entitled “Packaged Electronic Component and Method of Preparing the Same” (the ’482 patent); and (2) an order that General Automotive must pay a portion of Strattec’s attorney fees because the jury found the infringement to be…

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