United States Federal Circuit

In an infringement action between competitors in the power supply controller chip market, involving the district court's judgement that: 1) plaintiff's patents were neither anticipated nor obvious and were not directly or indirectly infringed by defendant; 2) plaintiff's patents were not anticipated and were directly and indirectly infringed by defendant; 3) defendants patent was not obvious and was infringed by plaintiff under the doctrine of equivalents, but was not literally infringed or indirectly infringed by plaintiff; and 4) defendant's patent was not anticipated and was not infringed by plaintiff; is affirmed-in-part, reversed-in-part, and vacated-in-part.

Appellate Information

• Published 2016/12/12

Judges

• CHEN

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel