United States Federal Circuit

Denial of defendants' motion for new trial, and a judgment of literal infringement, willfulness, and inducement of infringement and infringement under the doctrine of equivalents of patents involving a game call apparatus is affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) claim construction; 2) the doctrine of equivalents; 3) exclusion of evidence; and 4) jury instruction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/14/2006
• Published 06/14/2006

Judges

• LOURIE, Circuit Judge., Before NEWMAN, LOURIE, and PROST, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Brett L. Foster, Holland & Hart LLP, of Salt Lake City, Utah, argued for plaintiff-appellee.   With him on the brief were L. Grant Foster and Mark A. Miller., Edmund J. Sease, McKee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C., of Des Moines, Iowa, argued for defendants-appellants.   With him on the brief was Jeffrey D. Harty.