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Exmark Manufacturing Company v. Briggs & Stratton Power, No. 16-2197 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 12, 2018)

Affirmed in Part
Invalidity (§ 102/§ 103) Summary Judgment Damages Willfulness
Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case No.
No. 16-2197
Decided
January 12, 2018
Judge
Stoll, J.
Document
Precedential Opinion
Length
33 pages

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Exmark Manufacturing Company filed suit against Briggs & Stratton Power Products Group, LLC in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska , alleging infringement of, inter alia, claim 1 of U.S. Patent No. 5,987,863. The district court entered summary judg- ment that claim 1 was not invalid because the cl aim survived multiple reexaminations involving the same prior art.

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