NATIONAL OILWELL VARCO, L.P. v. AUTO-DRIL, INC.

No. 21-40648.

68 F.4th 206 (2023)

NATIONAL OILWELL VARCO, L.P., Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant, v. AUTO-DRIL, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellant/Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED May 12, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Wesley Raley , John Raley & Associates, P.L.L.C., Houston, TX, Robert McGee Bowick , Senior Attorney, Tanya Dugas Dawson (argued), Bowick, Dawson & Laney, P.L.L.C., Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant.

James Lawton Reed, Jr. , Gray Reed & McGraw, L.L.P., Houston, TX, Kelley Clark Morris , Wright, Close & Barger, L.L.P., Houston, TX, Austin P. Tighe, Jr. , Nix Patterson, L.L.P., Austin, TX, Steven Gregory White, Esq. (argued), Gray Reed & McGraw, Waco, TX, for Defendant-Appellant/Cross-Appellee.

Before Richman, Chief Judge, and King and Higginson, Circuit Judges.


This dispute began with a patent infringement suit in 2009. In 2011, the parties settled, but discord over that settlement re-emerged in later litigation. Now, the parties appeal various holdings that both preceded and followed a trial regarding their 2011 Settlement Agreement. We hold that we lack jurisdiction over Auto-Dril...

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