Legal Opinion
Bloom Engineering Company, Inc. v. North American Manufacturing Company, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided November 21, 1997No. 97-1139PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAULINE NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.
Bloom Engineering Company appeals the judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, 1 ruling that North American Manufacturing Company is not hable for infringement of Bloom’s reexamined United States Patent No. 4,828,483 (the ’483 patent) during the period before issuance of the reexamination certificate, because the claims were substantively changed during reexamination. We affirm the judgment.
THE REEXAMINED PATENT
The subject of the ’483 patent is an apparatus and method for repressing the formation of nitrous oxide…
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