Legal Opinion

Labounty Manufacturing, Inc. v. United States International Trade Commission, Dudley Shearing MacHine Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Intervenor-Appellee

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Decided May 5, 1992No. 90-1282PublishedCited by 152 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

NIES, Chief Judge.

LaBounty Manufacturing, Inc., appeals from the final determination of the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) in Investigation No. 337-TA-252, Certain Heavy Duty Mobile Scrap Shears, that U.S. Patent No. 4,519,135 (’135) was unenforceable due to inequitable conduct and thus, no violation of 19 U.S.C. § 1337 (1988) was established by Dudley Shearing Machine Manufacturing Co., Ltd. We affirm.

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BACKGROUND

A. History of the Litigation

LaBounty filed a complaint with the ITC in 1986, alleging a violation of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, 19 U.S.C. § 1337 by…

2Cases cited23 opinions

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3Cited by152 opinions

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