Legal Opinion
Southwall Technologies, Inc. v. Cardinal Ig Company
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided June 21, 1995No. 94-1243PublishedCited by 620 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MICHEL, Circuit Judge.
Southwall Technologies, Inc. (Southwall) appeals the March 2, 1994 decision of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Docket No. C-92-0327-DLJ, granting summary judgment for Cardinal IG Company (Cardinal) that Cardinal’s LOE.2 window glazing product cannot infringe Southwall’s Reexamined U.S. Patent No. B1 4,799,745 (the ’745 patent). Because the district court as a matter of law correctly interpreted the claims of the ’745 patent to foreclose literal infringement and correctly concluded that, as limited by prosecution history, the…
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