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Fed. Circ. Judge Warns Of Danger From Inventor's 'Chutzpah'
Law360 (January 7, 2021, 11:20 PM EST) -- A federal appeals court on Thursday threw out a $1.8 million infringement verdict against a theatrical winch-making division of Daktronics Inc., with one of the judges adding that the inventor might "qualify for a chutzpah award" for his arguments to the panel that Daktronics had willfully infringed.
The Federal Circuit ruled that New York District Judge George B. Daniels erred big time when he failed to correctly resolve a claim construction dispute over whether or not the hub of a disputed winch was also part of its drum, reversing an infringement verdict that inventor Olaf Soot's design company, Olaf Soot Design,...