Abb Robotics, Inc. And Cincinnati Milacron, Inc. v. Gmfanuc Robotics Corporation

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• noting that “an immediate threat of 3 enforcement followed by silence may be the most common scenario” in which equitable 4 estoppel arises
• affirming decision on equitable estoppel grounds based upon this same evidence
• prior to years of inaction, parties negotiated over license and defendant asserted no infringement
• patentee objection to challenged device as infringing rendered subsequent six years of inaction misleading
• “[T]hat an immediate threat of force may be the most common scenario does not mean that it is the only set of facts which can support a finding of misleading silence.”
• “[A] party advancing an estoppel defense must prove each of the elements thereof.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).