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GEO M. MARTIN CO. v. ALLIANCE MACHINE SYSTEMS

Nos. 2009-1132, 2009-1151.

618 F.3d 1294 (2010)

GEO M. MARTIN COMPANY and the Martin Family Trust — 1989, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ALLIANCE MACHINE SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL LLC, Defendant-Cross Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

August 20, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth E. Keller , Krieg Keller Sloan Reilley & Roman LLP, of San Francisco, CA, argued for plaintiffs-appellants. With him on the brief were C hristopher T. Holland and Michael D. Lisi .

J. Thomas Vitt , Dorsey & Whitney LLP, of Minneapolis, MN, argued for defendant-cross appellant. With him on the brief were Sri K. Sankaran , John J. Brogan and Bart B. Torvik .

Before RADER, Chief Judge, ARCHER and PROST, Circuit Judges.

RADER, Chief Judge.

Following a trial for patent infringement that resulted in a hung jury, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California ruled as a matter of law that U.S. Patent No. 6,655,566 (the "`566 patent") would have been obvious at the time of invention. Geo. M. Martin Co. v. Alliance Mach. Sys. Int'l, LLC, 634 F.Supp.2d 1024 (2008) (JMOL Opinion). Because the record supports...

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