Opinion ID: 757016
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Reading Claims on the Accused Device

Text: 41 Literal infringement of a claim exists when every limitation recited in the claim is found in the accused device. See Strattec Security Corp. v. General Automotive Specialty Co., 126 F.3d 1411, 1418, 44 U.S.P.Q.2d 1030, 1036 (Fed.Cir.1997); Johnston v. IVAC Corp., 885 F.2d 1574, 1580, 12 U.S.P.Q.2d 1382, 1384 (Fed.Cir.1989) (citing cases). We review the ITC's determination that the accused device infringes properly construed claim 131 under the substantial evidence in the record standard as set forth at 5 U.S.C. § 706(2)(E) (1994) and mandated by 19 U.S.C. § 1337(c). 42 Enercon makes only one argument on appeal that it does not infringe claim 131 of the '039 patent under the ITC's claim construction. The ITC plainly considered this argument, but because Enercon failed to comply with discovery requests on this issue, the ITC found as a sanction that the Enercon device formed a reference waveform as required by claim 131. Enercon does not challenge the ITC's discovery sanction as an issue on appeal until the very end of its reply brief. As we have stated before, [a] reply brief, which should 'reply to the brief of the appellee,' see Fed. R.App. P. 28(c), is not the appropriate place to raise, for the first time, an issue for appellate review. Amhil Enters. Ltd. v. Wawa, Inc., 81 F.3d 1554, 1563, 38 U.S.P.Q.2d 1471, 1477 (Fed.Cir.1996); see also Becton Dickinson & Co. v. C.R. Bard, Inc., 922 F.2d 792, 800, 17 U.S.P.Q.2d 1097, 1103 (Fed.Cir.1990). Therefore Enercon has waived this issue on appeal and the question of whether the accused device forms a reference waveform has been established as a matter of law. Enercon does not appeal any other portion of the ITC's finding that the accused wind turbines infringe claim 131. Because we affirm the claim construction of the ITC, and Enercon did not properly appeal the finding of infringement based upon that claim construction, we affirm the ITC's determination that claim 131 is infringed.