Legal Opinion
Loral Fairchild Corp. v. Sony Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided June 8, 1999No. 97-1017PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARCHER, Senior Circuit Judge.
Loral Fairchild Corporation (Loral) appeals the July 23, 1996 judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, No. 91-CV-5056, holding that Sony Corporation and Sony Electronics, Inc. (Sony) did not infringe Loral’s patents. As pertinent here, the court held on summary judgment that Sony did not literally infringe United States Patent No. 3,931,674 (the ’674 patent) and, contrary to the jury’s verdict, that it also did not infringe the patent under the doctrine of equivalents. The court also held, again contrary to the jury’s…
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