Dethmers Manufacturing Co. v. Automatic Equipment Mfg. Co.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER REGARDING DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION OF MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT OF INVALIDITY OF RE. 35,482

BENNETT, Chief Judge.

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In a previous ruling in this patent infringement case, this court observed that the adage “the devil is in the details” is perhaps particularly applicable to patent law. See Dethmers Mfg. Co. v. Automatic Equip. Mfg. Co., 23 F.Supp.2d 974, 981 (N.D.Iowa 1998) (Dethmers I). Indeed, it was on the basis of the “detail” that the addition of certain limitations to claims in an original patent application had not…