United States Federal Circuit
HEARING COMPONENTS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SHURE INC., Defendant-Cross Appellant., Nos. 2009-1364, 2009-1365.
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In a patent infringement action involving patents related to hearing aid ear piece devices, district court's judgment is affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded where: 1) district court's determination that claims 1 and 2 of plaintiff's '920 patent are indefinite is reversed; 2) district court's grant of JMOL that defendant's straight-nozzled products do not infringe is reversed and court's denial of JMOL that defendant's barbed-nozzled products infringe is affirmed; 3) district court correctly denied JMOL and upheld the jury's verdict of nonobviousness as legally permissible and supported by substantial evidence; and 4) district court did not abuse its discretion in determining that laches did not apply.
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- Decided 04/01/2010
- Published 04/01/2010
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- United States Federal Circuit