United States Federal Circuit

On remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, the fraudulent inducement, trade secret misappropriation, and patent infringement jury verdicts in favor of plaintiff, as well as the award of punitive damages and several related post-trial rulings made by the district court, are affirmed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/29/2003
• Published 09/29/2003

Judges

• CLEVENGER, Circuit Judge., Before CLEVENGER, SCHALL and DYK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• George Pazuniak,Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP, of Wilmington, DE, for plaintiff-appellee.   With him on the brief were Rudolf E. Hutz and Francis DiGiovanni.   Of counsel was Richard D. Levin., John F. Lynch, Howrey Simon Arnold & White, LLP, of Houston, TX, for defendant-appellant.   With him on the brief were Richard L. Stanley and Steven G. Spears.   Of counsel were Lisa J. Saks, of Washington, DC, and Michael E. Lee, of Houston, TX, Howrey Simon Arnold & White, LLP;  and Donald L. Traut, Dekalb Genetics, Legal Department, of Dekalb, IL.