Legal Opinion
Engel Industries, Inc. v. The Lockformer Company, Iowa Precision Industries, Inc. And Met-Coil Systems Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided November 13, 1991No. 90-1482PublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAULINE NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.
The defendants in this declaratory judgment action, Met-Coil Systems Corporation and its subsidiaries The Lockformer Company and Iowa Precision Industries, appeal the decision of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. 1 The court held all the claims of United States Patent No. 4,466,641 (the ’641 patent) invalid for the patentee’s failure to disclose the best mode as required by 35 U.S.C. § 112. The court also held that the patentee committed inequitable conduct based on failure to disclose the best mode, and voided the agreement…
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