Legal Opinion
Rivera-Davila v. ASSET CONSERVATION, INC.
District Court, D. Puerto Rico
Decided December 10, 2002No. CIV.A.90-2118Published
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
SARIS, District Judge. 1
INTRODUCTION
This patent dispute involves car security-systems that prevent theft by disabling the car’s ignition. A jury found that defendants Asset Conservation, Inc., Gabriel Guijarro-Brunet, and Iris Mieres de Gui-jarro willfully infringed claim 11 of U.S. Patent No. 3,548,373 (the “’373 patent”) and awarded $310,000 in damages. 2 The district court increased the amount to $1,240,000. Because the district court did not construe the claim language before submitting the infringement issue to the jury, the Federal Circuit vacated the finding of…
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