On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential decision in Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings v. Qiagen Sciences, LLC reversing the District of Delaware’s denial of Qiagen’s motion for judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) of non-infringement. The Federal Circuit found that the jury’s infringement verdict rested upon insufficient evidence, faulting the district court for improperly turning a claim construction matter over to the jury and for conducting an erroneous infringement analysis under the doctrine of equivalents.

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