SULZER TEXTIL A.G. v. PICANOL N.V.

Nos. 02-1410., 02-1441.

351 F.3d 1120 (2003)

Sulzer Textil A.G. and Sulzer Textile, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Picanol N.V., Defendant-Cross Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

Decided December 9, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

K.T. Cherian, Townsend & Townsend and Crew, LLP, of San Francisco, California, argued for plaintiffs-appellants. With him on the brief were J. Georg Seka and Igor Shoiket. Of counsel on the brief were Rickey L. Faulkner and S. Calvin Capshaw, Brown McCarroll, L.L.P., of Longview, Texas; and Otis Carroll, Ireland, Carroll & Kelley, P.C., of Tyler, Texas.

John P. Rowley III, Holland & Knight LLP, of McLean, Virginia, argued for defendant-cross appellant. With him on the brief were Jennifer A. Short and Joshua C. Krumholz, of Holland & Knight LLP, of Boston, Massachusetts. Of counsel on the brief was J. Ernest Kenney, Bacon & Thomas, of Alexandria, Virginia.

Before LOURIE, GAJARSA, and LINN,


LINN, Circuit Judge.

This case presents a question as to the nature and extent to which district courts are required to give jury instructions in patent cases in which claim construction rulings on disputed claim terms are made prior to trial and followed by the parties during the course of the trial. We hold that it is the duty of trial courts in such cases to inform jurors both of the court's claim construction rulings...

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