Legal Opinion
Thermolife International LLC v. Gnc Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided May 1, 2019No. 2018-1657; 2018-1666PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Taranto, Circuit Judge.
*1350 ThermoLife International, LLC exclusively licensed four patents from the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. It filed infringement suits, asserting selected claims of four patents, against numerous defendants, including Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Vital Pharmaceuticals, Inc. After Stanford became a co-plaintiff of ThermoLife's, a bench trial was held involving Hi-Tech, Vital, and a trio of companies from the GNC family as defendants (all other defendants having settled). The district court held all asserted claims invalid. That ruling…
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