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ST. JUDE MEDICAL, INC. v. ACCESS CLOSURE, INC.

No. 2012-1452.

729 F.3d 1369 (2013)

ST. JUDE MEDICAL, INC., and St. Jude Medical Puerto Rico, LLC, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. ACCESS CLOSURE, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

September 11, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrei Iancu , Irell & Manella, LLP, of Los Angeles, CA, argued for plaintiffs-appellees. With him on the brief were Morgan Chu , Alan J. Heinrich , Keith A. Orso , C. Maclain Wells , Eric B. Hanson and Laura Evans.

Joseph R. Re , Knobbe, Martens Olson & Bear, LLP, of Irvine, CA, argued for defendant-appellant. With him on the brief was Tanya Mazur. Of counsel on the brief were Charles K. Verhoeven , David Eiseman and Matthew D. Cannon , Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, of San Francisco, CA.

Concurring opinion filed by Circuit Judge LOURIE.

PLAGER, Circuit Judge.

This is a patent case. Access Closure, Inc. (ACI), the defendant at trial, appeals from several rulings made by the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas in favor of St. Jude Medical, Inc. and St. Jude Medical Puerto Rico, LLC (collectively "St. Jude"), plaintiffs patentees. The rulings relate to three patents that St. Jude asserted against ACI: U.S. Patent No. 7,008,439 to Janzen et al. (the Janzen patent or '439...

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