Trustees Of Boston University v. Everlight Electronics Co., No. 16-2576 (Fed. Cir. July 25, 2018)

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Plaintiff-cross-appellant Trustees of Boston Univers i- ty (“BU”) sued defendant s-appellants Everlight Electron- ics Co., Ltd. and Everlight Americas, Inc. (together, “Everlight”); Epistar Corp. (“Epistar”); Lite-On Inc., Lite - On Service USA, Inc., Lite-On Technology Corp., and Lite- On Trading USA, Inc. (together, “Lite -On”) (collectively, “Defendants”) for infringing BU’s U.S. Patent No. 5,686,738 (the “’738 patent”). A jury found that Defend- ants infringed the ’738 patent and failed to prove the patent’s invalidity.