Legal Opinion
McGill Incorporated v. John Zink Company, McGill Incorporated, Cross-Appellant v. John Zink Company, Cross-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided April 27, 1984No. Appeal 83-1198, 83-1217PublishedCited by 131 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KASHIWA, Circuit Judge.
This is a consolidated appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma (No. 80-C-17-E), entered December 7, 1982, and from a post-trial order entered June 22, 1983. The judgment was in favor of appellee, owner of U.S. Patent No. 4,066,423 (the “423 patent”), and the district court awarded damages of $8,000,000. We affirm in part and reverse in part.
The Invention
The patented invention relates to a process for recovering hydrocarbon vapors from an air-hydrocarbon mixture. It is a pollution-prevention process for recovering…
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