Legal Opinion
Spectrum International, Inc. v. Sterilite Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided December 9, 1998No. 98-1243PublishedCited by 144 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLEVENGER, Circuit Judge.
Spectrum International, Inc. (“Spectrum”) appeals the summary judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York that Sterilite Corporation’s (“Sterilite”) storage crates do not infringe claims 2 and 11 in Spectrum’s reexamined U.S. Patent No. 4,971,202 (“the ’202 patent,” originally issued November 20, 1990, reexamination certificate B1 4,971,202 issued May 27, 1997), either literally or under the doctrine of equivalents. See No. 96-CIV-8017 (WK) (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 27, 1998). Because in view of the ’202 patent’s prosecution history any…
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