Legal Opinion

Mentor Graphics Corporation v. Eve-Usa, Inc.

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Decided March 16, 2017No. 2015-1470, 2015-1554, 2015-1556PublishedCited by 107 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MOORE, Circuit Judge.

The present appeal arises from litigation in the District of Oregon between Mentor Graphics Corp. (“Mentor”) and Synopsys, Inc., Synopsys Emulation and Verification S.A;S., and EVE-USA, Inc. (“EVE”) (collectively, “Synopsys”). 1 Mentor asserted several patents against Synopsys, including U.S. Patent Nos. 6,240,376 (“the ’376 patent”), 6,947,882 (“the ’882 patent”), 6,009,531 (“the ’531 patent”), and 5,649,176 (“the ’176 patent”). Synopsys asserted two patents against Mentor — U.S. Patent Nos. 6,132,109 (“the ’109 patent”) and 7,069,526 (“the ’526 patent”).

The ’376 patent…

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