Inventio Ag. v. Otis Elevator Co.

Inventio AG and Otis Elevator Co. (“Otis”) both seek review of different parts of a judgment entered by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York which followed a jury trial where Otis was found to infringe Invention patent. Because we conclude that the asserted claims of Inventio’s patent are obvious as a matter of law, and that the district court improperly denied Otis’ motion to that effect, we reverse-in-part, vacate-in-part, and remand.

I. Background

In 1992, Schindler Elevator Corp., and its intellectualproperty holding company, Inventio AG (collectively…