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SPECIAL DEVICES, INC. v. OEA, INC.

Nos. 01-1053, 01-1078.

270 F.3d 1353 (2001)

SPECIAL DEVICES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. OEA, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

DECIDED: October 26, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Taylor, Jr., Lyon & Lyon, LLP, of Irvine, California, argued for plaintiff-appellee. On the brief was Robert C. Weiss, Lyon & Lyon, LLP, of Los Angeles, California. Of counsel was Thomas J. Brindisi, of Los Angeles, California.

Edward F. O'Connor, Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, of Newport Beach, California.

Before: MICHEL, Circuit Judge, FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and LOURIE, Circuit Judge.

MICHEL, Circuit Judge.

OEA, Inc. appeals from a summary judgment by the United States District Court for the Central District of California holding OEA's U.S. Patent No. 5,404,263 invalid because OEA had contracted with a supplier to have the patent's commercial embodiment mass-produced more than one year before it filed a patent application, thereby invoking the on-sale bar under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b). See Special...

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