PERKIN-ELMER CORP. v. COMPUTERVISION CORP.

No. 80-4087.

680 F.2d 669 (1982)

The PERKIN-ELMER CORPORATION, a New York corporation, Appellant, v. COMPUTERVISION CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 2, 1982.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied August 17, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Taylor, Jr., Lyon & Lyon, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

Richard J. Birch, Thompson, Birch, Gauthier & Samuels, Boston, Mass., argued, for appellee; Carl Hoppe, Eckhoff, Hoppe, Slick, Mitchell & Anderson, San Francisco, Cal., on brief.

Before SKELTON, Court of Claims Judge, and GOODWIN and NORRIS, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied August 17, 1982.

GOODWIN, Circuit Judge.

Perkin-Elmer appeals from a judgment upon a jury verdict finding its patents valid but not infringed.

Perkin-Elmer and Computervision sell projection printers, the Micralign and the Cobilt CA-3000, respectively, to the semiconductor industry for use in the manufacture of integrated circuits. A projection printer uses optics to illuminate a circuit design and trace this...

Let's get started

Leagle.com

Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.

  • Updated daily.
  • Uncompromising quality.
  • Complete, Accurate, Current.

Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.

Cited Cases

  • No Cases Found

Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case.

Citing Cases