United States Federal Circuit

In a patent infringement case involving a vehicle-mounted lamp, the district court's denial of the defendant's motion for judgment as a matter of law on invalidity is reversed, its summary judgment of infringement is vacated, and the case is remanded for entry of judgment of nonliability for the defendant, where the district court committed reversible error in its holdings that: 1) a reasonable jury could find that a competing French patent failed to teach the required "conical beam of light;" and 2) the jury could have reasonably found the French patent to lack a lamp "adjacent to the window."

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/27/2012
• Published 01/27/2012

Judges

• Prost

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark E. Ferguson, Constantine L. Trela, Jr.