Legal Opinion
Dual Manufacturing & Engineering, Inc. v. Burris Industries, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 22, 1980No. 79-1136PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PELL, Circuit Judge.
These are consolidated appeals from two judgments entered in consolidated patent infringement cases tried to a jury. The jury found both patents in suit to be valid and infringed. The patents related to chairs which could be reclined without striking a nearby wall. The judgment of the district court was affirmed by a divided panel of this court on July 20, 1979, on the basis that the jury’s verdict was not against the manifest weight of the evidence. The dissenting opinion took the position that obviousness was a question of law, that the evidence demonstrated the patents…
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