Legal Opinion

Hoganas Ab v. Dresser Industries, Inc.

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Decided January 7, 1994No. 92-1526PublishedCited by 165 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PLAGE R, Circuit Judge.

This is a patent infringement case which comes to us by way of appellant Hoganas AB’s (Hoganas) appeal of the decision of the District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Civil Action No. 89-304, granting appellee Dresser Industries, Inc.’s (Dresser) motion for summary judgment of non-infringement of U.S. Patent No. 3,982,-953 (the ’953 patent), both literally and under the doctrine of equivalents. We affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

Hoganas is the owner of the ’953 patent. 1 That patent is directed to a particular composition of materials used to form monolithic…

2Cases cited18 opinions

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