Legal Opinion
Jamesbury Corp. v. Litton Industrial Products, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided March 12, 1985No. Appeal 84-1079PublishedCited by 75 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NIES, Circuit Judge.
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Jamesbury Corp., the plaintiff below, charged Litton Industrial Products with infringing claims 7 and 8 of its U.S. Patent No. 2,945,666 to Freeman entitled “Ball Valve”. 1 Following a seven day jury trial, the jury returned a verdict for Litton, concluding, in answer to an interrogatory, that the asserted claims did not differ in any “significant particulars” from the prior art. 2 Under the court’s instructions, this finding meant that the claims were invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 102(a) 3 for lack of novelty. Jamesbury had timely objected to the jury charge on the issue of…
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