United States Federal Circuit
Solvay, S.A. v. Honeywell International, 2012-1660
Judgment for defendant holding that asserted claim 1 of plaintiff's patent for an improvement to a method of making a hydrofluorocarbon was invalid, is affirmed, where: 1) there was no error in the district court's claim construction; and 2) the district court correctly concluded that engineers working at the Russian Scientific Center for Applied Chemistry (RSCAC) first conceived the invention, which was reduced to practice in this country by defendant's personnel pursuant to the RSCAC's instructions, and did not abandon, suppress, or conceal it.
Appellate Information
- Decided 02/12/2014
- Published 02/12/2014
Judges
- DYK
Court
- United States Federal Circuit