Case: Patents/Claim Preclusion (Fed. Cir.)

The Federal Circuit affirms the grant of summary judgment in favor of Huawei Technologies Co. in this action for the infringement of patents directed to memory circuits. After a district court ruled that Huawei hadn’t infringed the patents and the Federal Circuit affirmed, the inventor filed a second infringement case against Huawei involving the same patents. The district court properly found that there was no genuine dispute that the accused devices in the first and second cases were essentially the same, with the issues in the second case already having been resolved in the first case. And a comparison of ...