Legal Opinion
SEB SA v. Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided February 5, 2010No. 2009-1099, 2009-1108, 2009-1119PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RADER, Circuit Judge.
This case began in August of 1999 when Plaintiff SEB S.A. (“SEB”) sued defendants Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. (“Montgomery Ward”), Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. (“Global-Tech”), and Pentalpha Enterprises, Ltd. (“Pentalpha”) for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 4,995,312 (the “'312 patent”). Almost seven years later, a jury found that Pentalpha had willfully infringed, and induced infringement of, claim 1 of the '312 patent and awarded SEB $4.65 million in damages. Pentalpha filed post-trial motions on a number of grounds. The district court granted them in part, reducing…
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