Medtronic, Inc. v. Mirowski Family Ventures, LLC.

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• holding that “the operation of the Declaratory Judgment Act” is “procedural” only and leaves “substantive rights unchanged”
• holding that, in a patent infringement declaratory judgment action filed by an alleged infringer, the defendant patent holder bears the burden of proving infringement
• holding that, where a patent licensee threatened with a lawsuit for patent infringement files a declaratory judgment action, the burden of proving infringement remains on the patentee, rather than shifting to the licensee to prove non-infringement
• finding that “the operation of the Declaratory Judgment Act [is] only procedural, leaving substantive rights unchanged” and that “the burden of proof is a sub- stantive aspect of a claim” (internal citations omitted and cleaned up)
• noting that the Declaratory Judgment Act is purely procedural
• \The relevant question [in examining jurisdiction underlying declaratory judgment actions] concerns the nature of the threatened action in the absence of the declaratory judgment suit.\

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