Legal Opinion
Vivid Technologies, Inc. v. American Science & Engineering, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided December 29, 1999No. 98-1303PublishedCited by 364 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAULINE NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.
In this declaratory judgment action brought by Vivid Technologies, Inc., the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts held on summary judgment that Vivid’s X-ray device did not literally infringe United States Patent No. 5,253,283 (the ’283 patent) owned by American Science and Engineering, Inc. (AS & E). AS & E asserts that the district court’s claim construction was incorrect, and that the summary judgment of non-infringement, including the denial of all discovery, was based on harmful procedural error as well as incorrect in law.
We affirm…
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