Legal Opinion
Aptix Corp. v. Quickturn Design Systems, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided November 5, 2001No. Nos. 00-1468, 00-1469PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RADER, Circuit Judge.
On June 14, 2000, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed the patent infringement complaint of Aptix Corporation and Meta Systems, Inc., after ruling that Ap-tix’s United States Patent No. 5,544,069 ('069 patent) is unenforceable. The trial court refused to enforce the '069 patent because Aptix submitted falsified engineering notebooks to the court.
Because substantial evidence supports the district court’s finding of unclean hands, this court affirms the district court’s dismissal of Aptix from the suit. Furthermore, because…
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