Legal Opinion
VLT CORP. v. Unitrode Corp.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided January 24, 2001No. 1:98-cv-11152PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
SARIS, District Judge.
Plaintiffs VLT Corporation and Vicor Corporation (collectively “Vicor”) bring this patent infringement action against Unitrode Corporation (“Unitrode”) claiming that Unitrode designed and marketed integrated circuits for use in power supply converters which literally infringe Claims 1 and 5 of U.S. Patent No. Re. 36,098 (“the ’098 Patent”).
Plaintiffs move for partial summary judgment on the grounds that Unitrode has directly infringed the ’098 Patent, that it induced four non-parties to infringe the patent, and that the patent is valid. Uni-trode has…
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