SHEARING v. IOLAB CORP.

No. 91-1343.

975 F.2d 1541 (1992)

Steven P. SHEARING, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. IOLAB CORPORATION and Johnson & Johnson, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

September 11, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morton R. Galane, Las Vegas, Nev., argued for plaintiff-appellee. With him on the brief were Thomas J. Tanksley, R.L. Rickdall and Philip M. Ballif. Also on the brief was Bradford E. Kile, Baker & McKenzie, Washington, D.C.

David F. Dobbins, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, New York City, argued for defendants-appellants. With him on the brief was Harman Avery Grossman. Also on the brief were Don K. Harness, Paul A. Keller and Stephen J. Foss, Harness, Dickey & Pierce, Troy, Michigan.

Before NEWMAN, RADER, and ALARCON, Circuit Judges.


RADER, Circuit Judge.

Dr. Steven P. Shearing, inventor and owner of U.S. Patent No. 4,159,546, sued Iolab and Johnson & Johnson for breach of a patent licensing agreement. Iolab filed a counterclaim to declare the '546 patent invalid based on prior inventorship, obviousness, and concealment of the best mode of carrying out the invention. After a lengthy trial, the jury rejected Iolab's challenges to validity of the '546 patent. The United States District Court...

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