Legal Opinion
Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics, Inc. v. Ii-Vi Inc.
District Court, C.D. California
Decided March 26, 2019No. Case No. 5:18-cv-01798-CAS-SHKxPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
IV. DISCUSSION
The sole question before the Court is whether, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1498, the Court should dismiss this case. Section 1498 is an affirmative defense, not a jurisdictional bar. Manville Sales Corp. v. Paramount Sys., Inc., 917 F.2d 544, 554 (Fed. Cir. 1990). Section 1498"relieves a third party from patent infringement liability, and it acts as a waiver of sovereign immunity and consent to liability by the United States." Madey v. Duke Univ., 307 F.3d 1351, 1359 (Fed. Cir. 2002). A section 1498 affirmative defense is a highly factual determination, whereby a defendant must…
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