Court Opinion

ID: 2677998
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2014-06-11 16:00:43.672226+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:08:07.704520
License: Public Domain

NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.

  United States Court of Appeals
      for the Federal Circuit
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     SHELLY CONTE AND CINDY REICHMAN,
             Plaintiffs-Appellants,

                           v.

               JAKKS PACIFIC, INC.,
                  Defendant-Appellee.
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                      2014-1153
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   Appeal from the United States District Court for the
Eastern District of California in No. 1:12-cv-00006-LJO-
GSA, Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill.
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                Decided: June 11, 2014
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    LENDEN F. WEBB, Webb & Bordson, APC, of Fresno,
California, argued for plaintiffs-appellants.

    JONATHAN HONIG, Feder Kaszovitz LLP, of New York,
New York, argued for defendant-appellee. Of counsel on
the brief was WILLIAM THOMAS MCLAUGHLIN, II, Lang,
Richert & Patch, of Fresno, California.
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    Before DYK, WALLACH, and CHEN, Circuit Judges.
2                              CONTE   v. JAKKS PACIFIC, INC.

PER CURIAM.
    The judgment is affirmed on the grounds that (1) the
asserted claim 9 of United States Patent No. 6,494,457
(the ’457 patent) would have been obvious and (2) the
district court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to
permit plaintiffs to amend the complaint to include claim
1 of the ’457 patent.
                      AFFIRMED