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BU Loses Bid To Reinstate $14M LED Patent Win

July 18, 2019 by in Articles

Law360 (July 18, 2019, 10:40 PM EDT) — A Massachuse”s federal judge on Thursday shut down Boston University’s bid to reinstate a $14 million patent infringement verdict against three LED manufacturers that was overturned by the Federal Circuit last year. U.S. District Judge Pa# B. Saris cited “several”
reasons for rejec$ng the university’s request to undo the Federal Circuit ruling in the case over U.S. Patent No. 5,686,738, which covers a certain way of growing layers on a semiconductor, in this case an LED. Read more