Spectronics Corporation v. H.B. Fuller Company, Inc., and H.B. Fuller Automotive Products, Inc.

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• the patentee's statement of non-liability made the declaratory judgment plaintiff immune to suit under the claims of the contested patent
• “[T]he existence of issued patent claims, presently enforceable against [the declaratory plaintiff seeking a declaration of non-infringement], are a requisite to litigation of a declaratory judgment action.”
• \[t]he existence of an actual controversy is an absolute predicate for declaratory judgment jurisdiction.\
• “ ‘[a]n actual controversy must be extant at all stages of review1 ”
• “When there is no actual controversy, the court has no [jurisdiction and no] discretion to decide the case. When there is an actual controversy and thus jurisdiction, the exercise of that jurisdiction is discretionary.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).