Sofamor Danek Group, Inc. v. Depuy-Motech, Inc.

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• movant failed to show exact embodiment, and therefore failed to show likelihood of success on infringement claim
• movant failed to show exact embodiment, and therefore failed to show likelihood of success on infringement claim, in support of motion for preliminary injunction
• a grant of injunctive relief is committed to the trial court’s discretion
• a patent claim distinguished from prior art on precisely the ground on which an alleged infringing device differed from the patented invention undermined likelihood of success on a doctrine of equivalents infringement claim and supported denial of the preliminary injunction
• Although “the trial court has no obligation to interpret [a claim] conclusively and finally during a preliminary injunction proceeding____ [It] may exercise its discretion to interpret claims at a time when the parties have presented a full picture of the claimed invention.”

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