SiOnyx LLC et al. v. Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. et al., Appeal Nos. 2019-2359, -1217 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 7, 2020)

In the only precedential patent opinion issued this week, the Federal Circuit determined multiple issues in cross-appeals from the district court’s disposition of post-trial motions following a jury trial. The dispute concerned infringement, patent ownership, and contract issues arising from the parties’ 2007-2008 collaboration on commercializing “black silicon” technology first developed by SiOnyx’s co-founders in the late 1990s......
By: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

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