Legal Opinion
Lifetime Industries, Inc. v. Trim-Lok, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided September 7, 2017No. 2017-1096PublishedCited by 191 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOURIE, Circuit Judge.
Lifetime Industries, Inc. (“Lifetime”) appeals from the district court’s final judgment granting Trim-Lok, Inc.’s (“Trim-Lok”) motion to dismiss Lifetime’s patent infringement complaint for failing to adequately allege that Trim-Lok either directly or indirectly infringed claims 1-6 of U.S. Patent 6,966,590 (“the ’590 patent”). See Lifetime Indus., Inc. v. Trim-Lok Inc., No. 3:13-cv-819, 2016 WL 5724451, at *3-5 (N.D. Ind. Sept. 30, 2016) (“Opinion”). For the following reasons, we reverse.
Background
Lifetime owns the ’590 patent, which generally describes a two-part seal…
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