Legal Opinion
The Gillette Company v. Energizer Holdings, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided June 20, 2005No. 04-1220PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge RADER. Dissenting opinion filed by Senior Circuit Judge ARCHER.
RADER, Circuit Judge.
The Gillette Company (Gillette) owns U.S. Patent No. 6,212,777 (issued April 10, 2001) (the ’777 patent) for wet-shave safety razors with multiple blades. Gillette sued Energizer Holdings, Inc. (Energizer) in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts alleging Energizer’s QUATTRO®, a four-bladed wet-shave safety razor, infringes certain claims of the ’777 patent. The district court denied Gillette’s motion for a preliminary injunction because…
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