DEERE & CO. v. BUSH HOG, LLC

Nos. 2011-1629, 2011-1630, 2011-1631.

703 F.3d 1349 (2012)

Deere & COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BUSH HOG, LLC, Defendant-Cross Appellant, Great Plains Manufacturing Incorporated, Defendant-Cross Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

December 4, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roderick R. McKelvie , Covington & Burling LLP, of Washington, DC, argued for plaintiff-appellant. With him on the brief was R. Jason Fowler .

Craig C. Martin , Jenner & Block LLP, of Chicago, IL, argued for defendant-cross appellant Bush Hog, LLC. With him on the brief were Steven R. Trybus , of Chicago, IL, Matthew S. Hellman , of Washington, DC, and Elizabeth A. Edmondson , of New York, New York. Of counsel were Jeffrey D. Harty and Edmund J. Sease , McKee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C., of Des Moines, IA.

Scott R. Brown , Hovey Williams LLP, of Overland Park, KS, argued for defendant-cross appellant Great Plains Manufacturing Incorporated. With him on the brief was Matthew B. Walters .

Before RADER, Chief Judge, NEWMAN and PLAGER, Circuit Judges.


RADER, Chief Judge.

The United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa construed the terms of Deere & Co.'s ("Deere") U.S. Patent No. 6,052,980 (the "'980 Patent") and granted Bush Hog, LLC's ("Bush Hog") and Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc.'s ("Great Plains") motions for summary judgment of noninfringement. This court affirms the construction of "rotary cutter deck" and the determination that the terms "substantially planar" and "easily washed...

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