Autogiro Co. of America v. United States
United States Court of Claims
384 F.2d 391 (1967)
Relevant factsFree
Autogiro Co. of America (Autogiro) (plaintiff) sued the United States (defendant) under 28 U.S.C. Section 1498 for compensation for infringing sixteen patents related to rotary-wing aircraft technology, after years of pretrial proceedings narrowed the case from an initial twenty-six patents. The trial commissioner found fifteen of the sixteen patents valid and infringed.
IssueFree
Whether patent infringement is determined by first construing the meaning of the patent claims at issue and then comparing the accused products to the construed claims to see if they do substantially the same thing in substantially the same way to accomplish substantially the same result.