Shockley v. Arcan, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• determining that an infringer’s “unclean hands” supported the denial of equitable intervening rights
• \Each joint tort-feasor is liable for the full amount of damages (up to a full single recovery) suffered by the patentee.\
• \[P]arties that make and sell an infringing device are joint tort-feasors with parties that purchase an infringing device for use or resale.\
• “[P]arties that make and sell an infringing device are joint tort-feasors with parties that purchase an infringing device for use or resale.”
• “Each joint tort-feasor is liable for the full amount of damages (up to a full single recovery) suffered by the patentee.”
• “This court, like the Fourth Circuit, has a `maximum recovery rule’ which remits an excessive jury award to the highest amount the jury could `properly have awarded based on the relevant evidence.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

34 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Smithkline Beecham Corp. v. Apotex Corp.
  Federal Circuit· 2005-04-08· cited 127×
• William G. Riles, Plaintiff-Cross v. Shell Exploration and Production Company
  Federal Circuit· 2002-09-25· cited 90×
• Saab Cars Usa, Inc. v. United States, Defendant-Cross
  Federal Circuit· 2006-01-17· cited 85×
• Antonio Lebron v. United States of America, United States of America
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-01-15· cited 76×
• Nilssen v. Osram Sylvania, Inc.
  Federal Circuit· 2007-10-10· cited 63×
• Dethmers Manufacturing Company, Inc. v. Automatic Equipment Mfg Co., Defendant/cross-Appellant
  Federal Circuit· 2001-12-05· cited 52×
• Top of Iowa Cooperative v. Schewe
  N.D. Iowa· 2001-06-19· cited 38×
• Utah Medical Products, Inc. v. Graphic Controls Corporation
  Federal Circuit· 2003-12-04· cited 26×
• Integra LifeSciences I, Ltd. v. Merck KGaA
  Federal Circuit· 2003-06-06· cited 24×
• Sionyx, LLC v. Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
  District of Columbia· 2018-08-30· cited 23×
• Smithkline Beecham Corporation and Beecham Group, P.L.C. v. Apotex Corp., Apotex, Inc., and Torpharm, Inc., Defendants-Cross
  Federal Circuit· 2004-04-23· cited 20×
• TruePosition Inc. v. ANDREW CORPORATION
  D. Delaware· 2008-07-31· cited 16×
• John Bean Technologies v. Morris & Associates Inc
  Federal Circuit· 2018-04-19· cited 12×
• Insituform Technologies, Inc. v. Amerik Supplies, Inc.
  N.D. Georgia· 2012-03-29· cited 12×
• Imonex Services, Inc. v. W.H. Munzprufer Dietmar Trenner GmbH
  Federal Circuit· 2005-05-23· cited 8×
• Marine Polymer Technologies, Inc. v. Hemcon, Inc.
  Federal Circuit· 2011-09-26· cited 5×
• Lucent Technologies, Inc. v. Gateway, Inc.
  S.D. California· 2008-06-19· cited 5×
• Medtronic, Inc. v. Guidant Corp.
  D. Delaware· 2005-07-19· cited 4×
• Hicks v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2009-09-18· cited 4×
• Shockley v. Arcan
  Third Circuit· 2001-05-09· cited 1×

Cites

24 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Bowen v. Georgetown University Hospital
  Supreme Court· 1988-12-12· cited 2,039×
• Gasperini v. Center for Humanities, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-24· cited 1,834×
• Molins Plc, and John Coventry Smith, Jr. v. Textron, Inc., Kearney & Trecker Corporation, and Avco Corporation
  Federal Circuit· 1995-03-15· cited 461×
• The Perkin-Elmer Corporation, a Corporation of New York v. Computervision Corporation, a Corporation of Delaware
  Federal Circuit· 1984-04-06· cited 392×
• Robert Conroy v. Reebok International, Ltd.
  Federal Circuit· 1994-02-15· cited 319×
• ætna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Yeatts
  Fourth Circuit· 1941-08-22· cited 314×
• Price v. City of Charlotte, North Carolina
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-09-03· cited 311×
• Keith W. Cline v. Wal-Mart Stores, Incorporated
  Fourth Circuit· 1998-05-05· cited 301×
• Midwest Industries, Inc. v. Karavan Trailers, Inc.
  Federal Circuit· 1999-05-05· cited 262×
• Lam, Inc. v. Johns-Manville Corporation and Johns-Manville Sales Corporation
  Federal Circuit· 1983-09-30· cited 186×
• 3D Systems, Inc. v. Aarotech Laboratories, Inc., Aaroflex, Inc. And Albert C. Young
  Federal Circuit· 1998-11-12· cited 161×
• Virginian Ry. Co. v. Armentrout
  Fourth Circuit· 1948-02-19· cited 144×
• Grain Processing Corporation v. American Maize-Products Company
  Federal Circuit· 1999-08-04· cited 141×
• Birdsell v. Shaliol
  Supreme Court· 1884-12-08· cited 126×
• Bic Leisure Products, Inc., and Windglider Fred Ostermann, Gmbh v. Windsurfing International, Inc., Defendant/cross-Appellant, and James R. Drake
  Federal Circuit· 1993-09-07· cited 126×
• Unisplay, S.A. v. American Electronic Sign Co., Inc., and Luke G. Williams
  Federal Circuit· 1995-12-28· cited 125×
• Applied Medical Resources Corporation v. United States Surgical Corporation
  Federal Circuit· 1998-08-21· cited 100×
• Manufacturers' Finance Co. v. McKey
  Supreme Court· 1935-03-04· cited 92×
• Norman P. Singer v. Thomas F. Dungan Benjamin Flammey the Cambridge Institute, Incorporated
  Fourth Circuit· 1995-01-23· cited 91×
• Oiness v. Walgreen Co.
  Federal Circuit· 1996-07-02· cited 55×