Legal Opinion
Kraft Foods, Inc. v. International Trading Company and Houston Processing Ltd.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided February 14, 2000No. 99-1240PublishedCited by 113 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MICHEL, Circuit Judge.
On July 13, 1998, Kraft Foods, Inc. (“Kraft”) sued International Trading Company and Houston Processing Ltd. (collectively, “ITC”) in the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, alleging infringement of its U.S. Patent No. 5,657,873 (“the ’873 patent”). On January 14, 1999, the district court granted ITC’s motion for summary judgment of no literal infringement and no infringement under the doctrine of equivalents of claim 2, the only asserted claim of the ’873 patent. See Kraft Foods, Inc. v. International Trading Co., No. 98-C-0491-S, slip…
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