Legal Opinion
Rentrop v. Spectranetics Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided December 18, 2008No. 2007-1560PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WALKER, Chief District Judge.
Defendant-appellant The Spectranetics Corporation (“Spectranetics”) appeals from a final judgment of the district court awarding $500,000 to plaintiff-appellee Dr Peter Rentrop. The judgment was based on a jury’s verdict that found claim 1 of Rentrop’s United States Patent No 6,673,-064 (“the '064 patent”) not invalid and infringed. After trial, the district court considered and rejected Spectranetics’s defense of inequitable conduct, see Rentrop v. Spectranetics Corp., 514 F Supp 2d 511 (S.D.N.Y.2007), and denied Spectran-etics’s motion for judgment as a matter…
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