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Intellectual Property Keyed to Merges
Johnson & Johnson Associates Inc. v. R.E. Service Co., Inc
Facts
The patent at issue, No. 5,153,050 (‘050), relates to the manufacture of printed circuit boards. Johnson & Johnston Associates, Inc. (Johnston) (Plaintiff) asserted its ‘050 patent against R.E. Services Co., Inc. (RES) (Defendant), under the doctrine of equivalents and a jury found for P. The ‘050 patent relates to the manufacture of printed circuit boards that are composed of very thin sheets of conductive copper foil pressed together in a press and heated to a point where a nonconductive resin bonds the sheets. Human workers participate in the process by manually handling the copper sheets during the layering process. The ‘050 patent prevents damage to the completed sheets by adhering aluminum substrates to the copper foils, as such aluminum substrates allow safe human handling during assembly. RES (Defendant) manufactures steel substrates in the same process and argues that Johnston’s (Plaintiff) ‘050 patent relates only to aluminum substrates and not to steel substrates.
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