Legal Opinion
DePuy, Inc. v. Zimmer Holdings, Inc.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided September 2, 2005No. 02 C 4023PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RICHARD A. POSNER, Circuit Judge, Sitting by Designation.
This is a suit for patent infringement; discovery is complete and the case has been set for trial. I dismissed another ease for patent infringement that had been assigned to me for trial last year because, as emerged shortly before the trial was scheduled to begin, the plaintiff had not owned the patent on which its claim for infringement was based when it had brought the suit. Pinpoint, Inc. v. Amazon.Com, Inc., 347 F.Supp.2d 579 (N.D.Ill.2004). The situation has recurred in this case.
The plaintiff in a patent infringement suit…
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