Legal Opinion
Steven P. Shearing v. Iolab Corporation and Johnson & Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided September 11, 1992No. 91-1343PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RADER, Circuit Judge.
Dr. Steven P. Shearing, inventor and owner of U.S. Patent No. 4,159,546, sued Iolab and Johnson & Johnson for breach of a patent licensing agreement. Iolab filed a counterclaim to declare the ’546 patent invalid based on prior inventorship, obviousness, and concealment of the best mode of carrying out the invention. After a lengthy trial, the jury rejected Iolab’s challenges to validity of the ’546 patent. The United States District Court for the District of Nevada denied appellants’ motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdict and, in the alternative, a new trial.…
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