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Advanced Steel Recovery, LLC v. X-Body Equipment, Inc., No. 14-1829 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 12, 2015)

Affirmed
Non-Infringement Summary Judgment Doctrine of Equivalents
Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case No.
No. 14-1829
Decided
November 12, 2015
Judge
Stoll, J.
Document
Precedential Opinion
Length
14 pages

From the Opinion

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Advanced Steel Recovery, LLC (“Advanced Steel”) ap- peals the district court’s summary judgment that X-Body Equipment, Inc. and Jewell Attachments, LLC (collective- ly, “X-Body”) do not infringe the asserted claims of U.S. Patent No. 8,061,950 (“ the ’950 patent”). For the reasons below, we affirm as to both literal infringement and infringement under the doctrine of equivalents. BACKGROUND Advanced Steel owns by assignment the ’950 patent, describing systems and methods of loadin g shipping containers with bulk material for storage or transport .

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