Ideal Instruments v. Rivard Instruments, C 05-3079-MWB.
Citation | 498 F.Supp.2d 1131 |
Decision Date | 10 August 2007 |
Docket Number | No. C 05-3079-MWB.,C 05-3079-MWB. |
Parties | IDEAL INSTRUMENTS, INC., a Michigan corporation, Plaintiff, v. RIVARD INSTRUMENTS, INC., a foreign corporation, and Meril Rivard, a foreign national, Defendants. |
Court | United States District Courts. 8th Circuit. Northern District of Iowa |
Jay Eaton, Nyemaster Goode Voigts West Hansell & O'Brien, PC, Des Moines, IA, Katherine A. Weed, Fraser Trebilcock Davis & Dunlap, P.C., Detroit, MI, Mark R. Fox, Toni L. Harris, Fraser, Trebilcock, Davis & Dunlap, P.C., Lansing, MI, for Plaintiff.
Amy M. Bjork, Angela Ellen Dralle, Dennis Wayne Johnson, Dorsey & Whitney, G. Brian Pingel, Brown, Winick, Graves, Gross, Baskerville and Schoenebaum, Des Moines, IA, Catherine S. Collins, Deidre D. Link, Karl T. Ondersma, Terence J. Linn, Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP, Grand Rapids, MI, for Defendants.
Although this patent infringement action has been before the court for the disposition of several weighty matters,1 this ruling is the first in which the focus is the patents-in-suit themselves, which are for "detectable" hypodermic needles for livestock. Specifically, this matter comes before the court for construction of disputed patent claim terms, i.e., for a ruling after a so-called "Markman hearing." See Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc., 52 F.3d 967 (Fed.Cir.1995) (en Banc), aff'd, 517 U.S. 370, 116 S.Ct. 1384, 134 L.Ed.2d 577 (1996). The parties' positions on claim construction appear to be as irreconcilable as their positions have been on nearly every substantive issue so far in this case: The parties have agreed on the construction of only two claim terms, but dispute whether another sixteen claim terms in the two patents require any construction at all, and if so, what construction to give them.
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