CAFC Affirms Finding of No Patent Violation in A/C Unit Connecting Devices Case
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the International Trade Commission’s finding of no Section 337 violations by SMC’s imports or sales of connecting devices for use with modular compressed air conditioning units (337-TA-587). Norgren, which filed the…
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original patent complaint, contested the ITC’s finding that its patent was obvious and therefore invalid, noting that ITC had found the patent nonobvious prior to a 2009 CAFC reversal of a different issue associated with the case. CAFC said it vacated the ITC’s obviousness determination in the first remand, allowing the ITC to revisit its determination in light of the new claim construction that resulted from the remand. The ITC also considered new evidence when making its determination, CAFC said. Judge Moore issued a dissenting opinion.