The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted a rehearing of its recent decision in Linear Technology Corp. v. Impala Linear Corp., et al., for the limited purpose of correcting the Court’s reporting of the district court’s decision regarding Linear’s motion for summary judgment that Vinsant was not an inventor of the `178 patent. The only change made by the Federal Circuit in the revised decision was to correct the standard of review with regard to the question of inventorship from an abuse of discretion standard to one based on a failure to raise a genuine issue of material fact. Linear Technology Corp. v. Impala Linear Corp., et al., Case Nos. 02-1569, 02-1576 (Fed. Cir., Aug. 17, 2004).

In its earlier decision, the Federal Circuit held:

"Because we discern no abuse of discretion in the district court’s conclusion that Vinsant’s inventorship claim was not corroborated, we affirm the district court’s denial of Maxim’s motion for summary judgment as to inventorship."

In the revised decision, the Federal Circuit modified the standard as follows:

"Because the district court, after viewing the evidence in a light favorable to Maxim, correctly concluded that no reasonable juror could find that Vinsant’s inventorship claim was corroborated, we affirm the district court’s grant of summary judgment that Vinsant was not an inventor of the `178 patent."

In all other respects, the Federal Circuit’s earlier decision remained the same.

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