Late last Thursday, the Federal Circuit released three nonprecedential orders dismissing appeals. Two of the dismissals came in patent cases appealed from the District of Colorado and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. One of the dismissals came in a case appealed from the Merit Systems Protection Board. This morning, the Federal Circuit released one precedential opinion in a patent case appealed from the District of Massachusetts, as well as one nonprecedential order dismissing a patent case. Here is the introduction to the opinion, along with links to the dismissals.
Egenera, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc. (Precedential)
Egenera, Inc. (“Egenera”) appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts holding that Cisco Systems, Inc. (“Cisco”) did not infringe the asserted claims of Egenera’s U.S. Patent No. 7,231,430 (“the ’430 patent”). The district court granted summary judgment of noninfringement as to claims 1 and 5 of the ’430 patent and later, following a jury trial, entered judgment based on the jury’s verdict of noninfringement of claims 3 and 7. On appeal, Egenera argues that the district court erred in granting summary judgment with respect to claims 1 and 5 and by denying its posttrial motions for judgment as a matter of law (“JMOL”) or alternatively a new trial on claims 3 and 7. We affirm.