Legal Opinion
Liberty Ammunition, Inc. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided August 26, 2016No. 2015-5057; 2015-5061PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Stoll, Circuit Judge.
The United States appeals the decision of the Court of Federal Claims that ammunition rounds used by the United States Army embody the claims of Liberty Ammunition, Inc.’s U.S. Patent No. 7,748,325 without authorization, violating 28 U.S.C. § 1498. The Government argues that the trial court erred in construing several claim terms and that, when these terms are construed correctly, the Army rounds do not embody the claimed invention. We agree with the Government that the trial court erred in two of its claim constructions because those constructions are unsupported by the…
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