Legal Opinion
Barmag Barmer Maschinenfabrik Ag v. Murata MacHinery Ltd., and Murata of America, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided March 26, 1984No. 18-2335PublishedCited by 450 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NIES, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from the judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina (McMillan, J.) 1 holding U.S. Patent No. Re. 30,159, owned by Barmag Barmer Maschinenfa-brik AG, invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b). Barmag, a West German corporation, had sued Murata Machinery, Ltd., a Japanese corporation, and its U.S, subsidiary (collectively “Murata”), charging the defendants with infringement in marketing certain textile processing machines asserted to be covered by the patent. The patent statute prohibits the grant of a patent for an…
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