Legal Opinion
Hill-Rom Company, Inc. v. Kinetic Concepts, Inc. And Kci Therapeutic Services, Inc., Defendants-Cross
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided April 14, 2000No. 99-1314, 99-1315PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRYSON, Circuit Judge.
After a bench trial in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, the district judge ruled that certain hospital beds manufactured by defendants Kinetic Concepts, Inc., and KCI Therapeutic Services, Inc., (collectively, KCI) do not infringe various claims of United States Patent No. 5,586,346 (the ’346 patent). We hold that the district court did not err in construing the asserted claims of the ’346 patent and did not clearly err in finding that KCI’s beds do not infringe those claims as construed. We therefore affirm the judgment for KCI. In…
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