Legal Opinion
Union Carbide Corporation v. American Can Company
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided January 4, 1984No. Appeal 83-902PublishedCited by 169 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NIES, Circuit Judge.
This case is an appeal from the grant of summary judgment by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division (Marshall, J.), entered March 4, 1983, holding United States Patent Nos. 4,262,803 (’803) and 4,277,930 (’930) invalid for obviousness under 35 U.S.C. § 103. Union Carbide appeals from that judgment, contesting the ruling of invalidity and asserting that material issues of fact remain to be tried in this case.
Our jurisdiction is found in 28 U.S.C. § 1295(a)(1).
The principal issue in this appeal is whether a genuine issue of…
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