United States Federal Circuit
Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling, Inc. v. Maersk Contractors USA, Inc., 09-1556
In Transocean's suit for infringement of its patents, related to an improved apparatus for conducting offshore drilling, district court's judgment is affirmed in part, reversed in part, vacated in part and remanded where: 1) the district court's holding of summary judgment of no willfulness is affirmed; 2) because there remain genuine issues of material fact regarding objective evidence of nonobviousness and undue experimentation, the grant of summary judgment relating to obviousness and enableness is reversed; and 3) because the contract between defendant and a Norwegian company is both an offer to sell and a sale, district court's summary judgment of noninfringement is vacated and remanded for further findings of infringement based on the rig that was the subject of the contract.
Appellate Information
- Decided 08/18/2010
- Published 08/18/2010
Judges
Court
- United States Federal Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Gregory A. Castanias, William H. Frankel