OPINION
RADER, Circuit Judge (Sitting by Designation).
In this patent case, Loral Fairchild Corporation sued numerous Japanese electronics companies for infringement of United States Patents 3,931,674 (the '674 patent) and 3,896,485 (the '485 patent). In August 1995, the court severed and stayed all of the non-manufacturing consumer defendants, leaving six core groups of manufacturing defendants — Sony, Sanyo, Toshiba, Hitachi, NEC, and OKI. On October...
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