Legal Opinion
Dow Chemical Company, Plaintiff/cross-Appellant v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided September 6, 2000No. 97-5035, 97-5038PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARCHER, Senior Circuit Judge.
DECISION
The United States appeals the judgment of the United States Court of Federal Claims in favor of Dow Chemical Company (Dow) holding the United States liable for damages for patent infringement. Dow cross-appeals the amount of damages awarded. We affirm-in-part, reverse-in-part, vacate-in-part, and remand the case for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
BACKGROUND
I. For many years the United States Bureau of Mines (government) sought solutions to the problem of subsidence of the land overlying depleted mines. In the early 1970s Dow developed an…
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