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Cable Electric Products, Inc. v. Genmark, Inc.

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Overruled in part
Court
Federal Circuit
Citation
770 F.2d 1015
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
28 of 28
Citing cases (total)
28
Treatment dates
1999
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. Cable Electric Products, Inc. v. Genmark, Inc. was overruled in part by the Federal Circuit sitting en banc in Midwest Industries, Inc. v. Karavan Trailers, Inc. The court rejected Cable Electric's use of regional circuit law to decide conflicts between patent law and other legal rights, as explained below. All 28 flagged citations have been read.
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Later opinions continued to apply Cable Electric's patent evidence and summary judgment rules.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

28 later cases cite Cable Electric Products, Inc. v. Genmark, Inc.; 28 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in part

  • The Federal Circuit overruled Cable Electric's choice of regional circuit law for conflicts between patent law and other legal rights.

    Midwest Industries, Inc. v. Karavan Trailers, Inc. · Federal Circuit (en banc) · filed

    Henceforth, we will apply our own law to such questions. To the extent that Cable Electric Products, Inc. v. Genmark, Inc., Interpart Corp. v. Italia, and Hunter Douglas, Inc. v. Harmonic Design, Inc., hold that we are required to apply regional circuit law to conflicts between patent law and other legal rights, we therefore overrule those decisions.
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