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NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION v. POSCO, 12-2429 (SRC). (2014)

Court: District Court, D. New Jersey Number: infdco20140911a72 Visitors: 8
Filed: Sep. 09, 2014
Latest Update: Sep. 09, 2014
Summary: OPINION & ORDER STANLEY R. CHESLER, District Judge. This matter comes before the Court on the motion for reconsideration of this Court's Opinion and Order entered June 4, 2014 (the "Opinion") by Defendants POSCO and POSCO America Corporation (collectively, "POSCO"). For the reasons stated below, the motion will be denied. "A court may grant a motion for reconsideration if the moving party shows one of the following: (1) an intervening change in the controlling law; (2) the availability of new
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OPINION & ORDER

STANLEY R. CHESLER, District Judge.

This matter comes before the Court on the motion for reconsideration of this Court's Opinion and Order entered June 4, 2014 (the "Opinion") by Defendants POSCO and POSCO America Corporation (collectively, "POSCO"). For the reasons stated below, the motion will be denied.

"A court may grant a motion for reconsideration if the moving party shows one of the following: (1) an intervening change in the controlling law; (2) the availability of new evidence that was not available when the court issued its order; or (3) the need to correct a clear error of law or fact or to prevent manifest injustice." See Banda v. Burlington County, 263 Fed. Appx. 182, 183 (3d Cir. 2008) (citing Max's Seafood Café v. Quinteros, 176 F.3d 669, 677 (3d Cir. 1999)); L. CIV. R. 7.1(i).

POSCO seeks reconsideration of that portion of the Opinion which dealt with their arguments that certain claim terms were indefinite. POSCO contends, correctly, that the Supreme Court's recent decision in Nautilus, Inc. v. Biosig Instruments, Inc., 134 S.Ct. 2120, 2129 (2014), changed the legal standard for a finding that patent claims are invalid for indefiniteness. The question is what impact that change has on the reasoning that this Court relied on in its Opinion; the answer is none, no impact. Even the most cursory reading of the Opinion reveals that this Court entirely rejected POSCO's original indefiniteness argument for a number of reasons. Nautilus has had no impact on any of those reasons. There is no basis for reconsideration.

For these reasons,

IT IS on this 9th day of September, 2014

ORDERED that POSCO's motion for reconsideration (Docket Entry No. 196) is DENIED.

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