Fed. Circ. Asked To Revisit $5M Patent Award To SEB

By Allison Grande

Law360, New York (March 05, 2010, 4:08 PM ET) -- Insisting that it had no knowledge of the existence of a patent for a plastic skirt on a deep fryer, Pentalpha Enterprises Ltd. has asked a federal appeals court to grant an en banc review of its decision to uphold a $4.88 million infringement award to French appliance maker SEB SA.

Pentalpha filed its en banc petition Tuesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, arguing that the “case presents the basic issue concerning whether actual knowledge of a patent is necessary to...
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