Legal Opinion
Ethicon, Inc. And Inbae Yoon, M.D. v. United States Surgical Corporation and Young Jae Choi
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided April 1, 1998No. 97-1269PublishedCited by 267 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RADER, Circuit Judge.
In this patent infringement action, Dr. In-Bae Yoon (Yoon) and his exclusive licensee, Ethicon, Inc. (Ethicon), appeal from the judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. In 1989, Yoon and Ethicon sued United States Surgical Corporation (U.S. Surgical) for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 4,535,773 (the ’773 patent). In 1993, the parties stipulated to the intervention of Mr. Young Jae Choi (Choi) as defendant-intervenor. Choi claimed to be an omitted co-inventor of the ’773 patent and to have granted U.S. Surgical a retroactive license…
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