SD3, LLC; Sawstop LLC, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
BLACK & DECKER (U.S.) INC.; BLACK & DECKER CORPORATION; CHANG TYPE INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.; DELTA POWER EQUIPMENT CORP.; HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.; HITACHI KOKI USA LTD.; MAKITA CORPORATION; MAKITA U.S.A., INC.; MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORP.; ONE WORLD TECHNOLOGIES, INC.; OWT INDUSTRIES, INC.; ROBERT BOSCH GMBH; ROBERT BOSCH TOOL CORPORATION; RYOBI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.; STANLEY BLACK & DECKER, INC.; TECHTRONIC INDUSTRIES, CO., LTD.; TECHTRONIC INDUSTRIES NORTH AMERICA, INC.; PENTAIR WATER GROUP, INC.; EMERSON ELECTRIC COMPANY; PENTAIR, INC., Defendants-Appellees, and
DEWALT INDUSTRIAL TOOLS; EMERSON ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC.; PENTAIR CORPORATION; PORTER-CABLE CORPORATION; SKIL POWER TOOLS, Defendants.
AMERICAN ANTITRUST INSTITUTE; NATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE, Amici Supporting Appellants.
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Argued: May 12, 2015.
Decided: October 29, 2015.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
ARGUED: Joel Davidow , CUNEO GILBERT & LADUCA, LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellants.
John D. Harkrider , Richard B. Dagen , AXINN, VELTROP & HARKRIDER LLP, Washington, D.C., Bernard J. DiMuro , DIMURO GINSBERG PC, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellees Stanley Black & Decker, Incorporated, Black & Decker (U.S.) Incorporated, and Black & Decker Corporation
James G. Kress , BAKER BOTTS L.L.P., Washington, D.C., Scott W. Hansen , Steven P. Bogart , James N. Law , REINHART BOERNER VAN DEUREN S.C., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for Appellees Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation, One World Technologies, Incorporated, OWT Industries, Incorporated, Ryobi Technologies, Incorporated, Techtronics Industries Co., Ltd., and Techtronic Industries North America, Incorporated.
Affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded by published opinion. Judge Agee wrote the opinion, in which Judge Wynn joined. Judge Wynn wrote a separate concurring opinion. Judge Wilkinson wrote an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.
ON REHERING
AGEE, Circuit Judge:
SD3, LLC and its subsidiary, SawStop, LLC (together, "SawStop"), contend that several major table-saw manufacturers conspired to boycott SawStop's safety technology and corrupt a private safety-standard-setting process, all with the aim of keeping that technology off the market. Consequently...
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