Infringement • Inequitable Conduct • Fraud • Invalidity
Junker v. Med. Components, Inc. PICS Case No. 17-0105 (E.D. Pa. Dec. 21, 2016) Goldberg, J. (17 pages).
Court, in patent infringement litigation, found that defendants adequately pleaded inequitable conduct and fraud when they alleged that plaintiff stole a third party’s drawings and filed them with the PTO as if they were his own but struck those paragraphs of defendants’ third amended answer that related to an “on bar” sale and “incorrect inventorship” invalidity allegations because they exceeded the judge’s order granting leave to file a third amended answer. Motion granted in part and denied in part.
