United States Federal Circuit

District court's ruling that plaintiff's die cast system patent is valid and infringed affirmed, however case remanded for a determination of whether plaintiff established facts supporting its position that but for the infringement, it would have obtained a higher price, and if so, the reassessment of damages.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/06/2002
• Published 02/06/2002

Judges

• Before NEWMAN, MICHEL, and LOURIE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• J. Ross Forman, III,Burr & Forman LLP, of Birmingham, Alabama, argued for plaintiff-cross appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas N. Young, Young & Basile, P.C., of Troy, Michigan, argued for defendants-appellants.   With him on the brief was Marshall G. MacFarlane.   Of counsel were Amanda Conti-Dunhaime, Young and Basile, P.C.;   and William R. Buesser and Diane M. Buettner, Buesser Buesser Black Lynch Fryhoff & Graham, P.C., of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.