United States Federal Circuit

A judgment of infringement and award of damages is vacated where the court did not construe the claims at issue and did not identify the specific claims it held to be infringed under the doctrine of equivalents.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/01/2002
• Published 08/01/2002

Judges

• LINN, Circuit Judge., Before GAJARSA, LINN, and PROST, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Paul McNeill,Womack, Landis, Phelps, McNeill & McDaniel, of Jonesboro, Arkansas, argued for the plaintiff-appellee.   On the brief was Stephen D. Carver, Carver Patent Law, LTD., of Little Rock, Arkansas., William M. Lee, Jr., Lee, Mann, Smith, McWilliams, Sweeney & Ohlson, of Chicago, Illinois, argued for defendants-appellants.   With him on the brief was Mark J. Nahnsen.