Medtronic, Inc., and Med-Rel, Inc. v. Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.

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• holding that the district court’s error was, however, harmless in light of other considerations
• “Unimportant and insubstantial substitutes for certain elements could defeat the patent and its value to investors could be destroyed by simple acts of copying.”
• “It is of course true that to be patentable an invention must be useful, novel, and nonobvious.”
• “Though an invalid claim cannot give rise to liability for infringement, whether it is infringed is an entirely separate question capable of determination without regard to its validity.”
• “Though an invalid claim cannot give rise to liability for infringement, whether it is infringed is an entirely separate question capable of determination without regard to its validity.”
• \[A]n invalid claim cannot give rise to liability for infringement ....\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).