Patent opinions from the Eastern District of Texas and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Fed. Cir.

Sociedad Espanola v. Blue Ridge X-Ray Company, No. 15-1102 (Fed. Cir. July 31, 2015)

Reversed in Part
Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case No.
No. 15-1102
Decided
July 31, 2015
Judge
Linn, J.
Document
Nonprecedential Opinion
Length
11 pages

From the Opinion

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Sociedad Espanola de Electromedicina y Calidad, S.A. (“SEDECAL”) appeals the district court’s construction of certain claim terms of U.S. Patent No. 6,642,829 (the “’829 patent”) and its grant of Blue Ridge X -Ray Co., DRGEM USA, Inc. and DRGEM Corp. ’s (“Blue Ridge ’s”) motion to amend their invalidity contentions pursuant to which the district court granted summary judgment that the asserted claims of the ’829 patent a re invalid and not infringed. See Sociedad Espanola de Electromedicina y Calidad, S.A. v. Blue Ridge X -Ray Co., Inc. , 47 F. Supp.