Transclean Corporation v. Jiffy Lube International

How courts have described this case

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

• judicial estoppel precludes a party from “revers[ing] course . . . late in the proceedings simply because it now realizes its litigation strategy was unsuccessful”
• judicial estoppel precludes a party from “revers[ing] course . . . late in the proceedings simply because it now realizes its litigation strategy was unsuccessful”
• “[A] party may be judicially estopped from asserting clearly inconsistent positions on claim construction, which is a question of law.”
• “a 9 manufacturer or seller of a product who is sued for patent infringement typically is not in privity 10 with a party, otherwise unrelated, who does no more than purchase and use the product”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).