United States Federal Circuit
Avid Identification Sys., Inc. v. Crystal Import Corp., 09-1216
In plaintiff's suit alleging infringement of a patent directed to a multi-mode radio-frequency identification system for reading encoded biocompatible chips, district court's judgment that the patent was valid and infringed, but unenforceable for inequitable conduct, is affirmed where: 1) there remains a live controversy between the parties on the issue of unenforceability of the patent and the court has jurisdiction to decide the case under 28 U.S.C. section 1295(a)(1); and 2) district court did not abuse its discretion in rejecting plaintiff's argument that its founder and president owed no duty of candor to the PTO as he withheld material information regarding his sales demonstrations of products that reflected the closest prior art to the claims of the patent and acted with deceptive intent.
Appellate Information
- Decided 04/27/2010
- Published 04/27/2010
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- United States Federal Circuit