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Diamond Coating Technologies v. Hyundai Motor America, No. 15-1844 (Fed. Cir. May 17, 2016)

Affirmed
License / Exhaustion Inventorship
Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case No.
No. 15-1844
Also Docketed
No. 15-1861 (consolidated; same document)
Decided
May 17, 2016
Judge
Wallach, J.
Document
Precedential Opinion
Length
11 pages

From the Opinion

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Appellant Diamond Coating Technologies, LLC (“D i- amond”) sued Appellees Hyundai Motor America, Hyu n- dai Motor Company, Kia Motors America, Inc., Kia Motors Company, Nissan North America, Inc., and Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (collectively, “Appellees”) in the United States District Court for the Central District of California (“District Court”) alleging infringeme nt of U.S. Patent Nos. 6,066,399 and 6,354,008 (together, the “patents -in- suit”).

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