United States Federal Circuit

In a patent infringement suit involving a patent directed to a cooling device designed to mount within the drive bay of a computer, district court's finding that defendant willfully infringed certain claims of plaintiff's patent, that certain independent claims were not invalid as obvious, and that certain dependent claims were obvious is affirmed in part, vacated in part and remanded where: 1) defendant's contention that a new trial is required because the district court's claim constructions were in error is rejected as the court's claim constructions were correct; but 2) the district court was required to grant a new trial because the jury's verdicts on obviousness were irreconcilably inconsistent.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/01/2010
• Published 03/01/2010

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• United States Federal Circuit

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