Legal Opinion
Deere & Co. v. Bush Hog, LLC
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided December 4, 2012No. 2011-1629, 2011-1630, 2011-1631PublishedCited by 100 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RADER, Chief Judge.
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa construed the terms of Deere & Co.’s (“Deere”) U.S. Patent No. 6,052,980 (the “'980 Patent”) and granted Bush Hog, LLC’s (“Bush Hog”) and Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc.’s (“Great Plains”) motions for summary judgment of noninfringement. This court affirms the construction of “rotary cutter deck” and the determination that the terms “substantially planar” and “easily washed off’ do not render the asserted claims invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 112. Because the district erroneously construed the term “into…
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