Legal Opinion
Minco, Inc., Plaintiff/cross-Appellant v. Combustion Engineering, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided November 18, 1996No. 96-1005, 96-1033PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Per curiam
In this patent infringement case, Combustion Engineering, Inc. (CE) appeals and Min-eo, Inc. cross-appeals a final decision of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. The patent at issue, 4,217,462 (the ’462 patent), claims a rotary furnace for fusing minerals. The district court found CE willfully infringed claims 3 and 4 of the ’462 patent. The court also found that these claims were neither invalid nor unenforceable and that laches did not apply. The court awarded damages of $3,455,329 and a reasonable royalty of $7,408,179.40. Because the infringement was…
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