Court Opinion

ID: 9469181
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 02:34:28.666555+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:41:16.313240
License: Public Domain

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the Court’s opinion but add a few words to make clear where I stand on the question of this Court’s reviewing function in patent cases. I agree completely with Judge Woods that the findings of the District Court to which a patent case is tried without a jury must be reviewed here in accordance with the clearly erroneous standard. As the author of the Court’s opinion in Contico Int’l, Inc. v. Rubbermaid Commercial Prods., Inc., 665 F.2d 820, 823 (8th Cir. 1981), cited by Judge Woods, post, p. 1250, I could do no less. I also agree that if a patent case is tried to a jury the verdict should be reviewed on appeal with the same deference that is given a jury verdict in any other kind of case.
*1250I do not read the Court’s opinion in this case as giving no weight or consideration to the jury verdict below. I read it, rather, as holding that the Mitchell patent is so clearly invalid that no jury question was made out. On that basis, I concur in the opinion of the Court and in its judgment.