LIGHTING BALLAST CONTROL LLC v. PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NORTH AMERICA CORPORATION

No. 2012-1014.

LIGHTING BALLAST CONTROL LLC, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NORTH AMERICA CORPORATION, Defendant, AND UNIVERSAL LIGHTING TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

Decided: January 2, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

JONATHAN T. SUDER , Friedman, Suder & Cooke, of Fort Worth, Texas, argued for plaintiff-appellee. With him on the brief was ROBERT P. GREENSPOON , Flachsbart & Greenspoon, LLC, of Chicago, Illinois.

STEVEN J. ROUTH , Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, of Washington, DC, argued for defendant-appellant. With him on the brief were STEN A. JENSON , JOHN R. INGE , T. VANN PEARCE, JR. , and DIANA M. SZEGO .

Before RADER, Chief Judge, O'MALLEY and REYNA, Circuit Judges.


This disposition is nonprecedential.

REYNA, Circuit Judge.

Lighting Ballast Control LLC ("Lighting Ballast") sued Universal Lighting Technologies, Inc. ("ULT") for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 5,436,529 (the '529 Patent). The patented technology relates to control and protection circuits for electronic lighting ballasts commonly used in fluorescent lighting. The district court construed the term "voltage source means" as a meansplus-function limitation...

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