Ball Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant/cross-Appellee v. Xidex Corporation and Dysan Corporation, Defendants-Appellees/cross-Appellants

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• holding “that private lawyers are 26 entitled to absolute immunity from charges of defamation based on statements in the quasi- judicial setting of PTO proceedings”
• reasoning that plaintiff was not prejudiced when a defendant asserted for the first time an affirmative defense in a motion for summary judgment at least three months prior to trial
• con- cluding that raising the affirmative defense of collateral estoppel in a summary judgment motion three months before trial was sufficient to not prejudice the plaintiff

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