Legal Opinion
Jon E. Kinzenbaw and Kinze Manufacturing, Inc. v. Deere & Company and Eugene G. Keeton
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided August 7, 1984No. Appeal 83-1424, 84-523PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRIEDMAN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa after a jury trial in a patent infringement case. The jury, in response to special interrogatories, found that each of the five patents in issue was either invalid, unenforceable, or not infringed. The trial court entered judgment on that verdict. We affirm most of the judgment, but vacate one portion of it as moot.
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Appellant Deere & Company (Deere) owns four of the patents involved: U.S. Patent No. 3,552,601 to Hansen (Hansen patent); U.S. Patent No. 3,499,495 to…
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