Legal Opinion
Richard Lawrence Stevenson v. Sears, Roebuck & Company
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided July 27, 1983No. Appeal 83-746PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BENNETT, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Stevenson v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., No. 77-4518 (C.D.Cal. Jan. 14, 1983). In the district court, the appellant (Stevenson) unsuccessfully attempted to enforce a patent that had been the subject of seemingly inconsistent determinations in two previous suits. In 1979, the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals (one of our predecessor courts) held that certain foreign corporations had “failed to carry their burden of persuasion in asserting the invalidity of the subject…
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