APPLERA CORP. v. MJ RESEARCH INC.

No. 3:98CV1201 (JBA).

389 F.Supp.2d 356 (2005)

APPLERA CORPORATION and Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., plaintiffs, v. MJ RESEARCH INC. and Michael and John Finney, defendants.

United States District Court, D. Connecticut.

August 25, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aimee Jennifer Wood, James T. Shearin, Pullman & Comley, Bridgeport, CT, Gwen P. Weisberg, Pullman & Comley, James Sicilian, Mario R. Borelli, Robin L. Smith, Day, Berry & Howard, Hartford, CT, Asim Varma, Bertrand R. Lanciault, III, David Gersch, Jean C. Kalicki, Michael J. Klyce, Jr., Arnold & Porter, Mary L. Azcuenaga, Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP, Washington, DC, Brian M. Poissant, Bruce J. Barker, Pennie & Edmonds, Charles W. Bradley, Jennifer Gordon, Joseph Evall, Robert A. Cote, Stephen J. Lieb, John Josef Molenda, Patrick J. Hoeffner, Sharon Yang, Rita Lynn Berardino, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Lawrence B. Goodwin, Chadbourne & Parke, Wendy Schechter, Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP, David J. Lender, Gianluca Morello, David Greenbaum, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York, NY, Jennifer K. Lawson, Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, Boston, MA, Edward R. Reines, Paul Ehrlich, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Redwood Shores, CA, for Plaintiffs.

A. Jason Mirabito, Brett N. Dorny, Geri L. Haight, Ivor R. Elrifi, John A. Harre, Joseph G. Blute, William A. Marino, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C., Boston, MA, Albert L. Jacobs, Jr., Gerard F. Diebner, Joseph M. Manak, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Christine Cora True-Frost, David A. Hoffman, John E. Beerbower, Latisha Thompson, Radu A. Lelutiu, Rudolf Koch, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Daniel A. Ladow, Graham & James, Mary Morabito Rosewater, Schulte, Roth & Zabel, New York, NY, C. Allen Foster, David S. Panzer, Kevin E. Stern, Timothy C. Bass, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, William C. Brashares, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, Washington, DC, Donna Nelson Heller, Harold Bolton Finn, III, Meghan A. Laganza, Patrick J. McHugh, Finn Dixon & Herling, Stamford, CT, Joseph B. Darby, III, Greenberg & Traurig, Boston, MA, for Defendants.


Ruling on Defendants' Post Trial Motion as a Matter of Law Pursuant to Rule 50 [Doc. # 1316]

ARTERTON, District Judge.

MJ moves pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 50 for judgment as a matter of law on grounds that (1) MJ's sample holders do not infringe the metal block element found in all of the asserted instrument patent claims; (2) MJ's thermal cyclers cannot infringe claims 1, 44, and 158 of the '610 patent because MJ uses a different algorithm; (3) MJ's thermal...

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