CAFC Remands Patent Import Ban on Fingerprint Scanners From Suprema and Mentalix
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Dec. 13 found fault with a partial import ban on fingerprint scanners, ordering the International Trade Commission to reconsider its limited exclusion orders against Suprema and Mentalix. Because of the ITC wrongly found some products infringed patents in violation of Section 337, the exclusion orders only appear to be valid for Suprema’s RealScan 10 and RealScan 10F scanners, CAFC said. The appeals court remanded for the International Trade Commission to revise the exclusion orders accordingly.
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(Suprema v. ITC, CAFC No. 2012-1170, dated 12/13/13, Judges Prost and O’Malley, Judge Reyna dissenting in part.)