Legal Opinion
Duro-Last, Inc., Plaintiff-Cross v. Custom Seal, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided February 28, 2003No. 02-1218, 02-1262PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PLAGER, Senior Circuit Judge.
This case requires us to decide whether, under nascent Federal Circuit law, the plaintiffs pre-verdict motion for judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) was sufficiently specific with regard to the defense of obviousness to support the trial judge’s grant of the post-verdict JMOL in plaintiffs favor.
Duro-Last, Inc. sued Custom Seal, Inc. for infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 4,652,321 and 4,872,296. A jury found that Custom Seal infringed both patents, but, in response to Custom Seal’s invalidity defense, foun'd both patents invalid for obviousness. With regard to…
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