United States Federal Circuit

In a patent infringement suit, involving patents related to shipping containers used to ship automobile door panels and related parts, district court's judgment is affirmed in part, reversed in part and remanded where: 1) district court's decision limiting the priority date of a patent to its own filing date is affirmed as the applicants' statement to the examiner is a compelling disclaimer of scope such that the patent is not entitled to an earlier priority date; 2) district court's finding of noninfringement of two patents is reversed as the court based its noninfringement finding solely on its revised term "couple to"; and 3) the district court erred in declining to find jurisdiction over defendant under Rule 4(k)(2) because it found that plaintiff had not demonstrated that defendant had sufficient contacts with Ohio or Michigan, and that doing so would not comport with the due process requirements of the Constitution and federal law.

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• Decided 04/29/2010
• Published 04/29/2010

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• United States Federal Circuit

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