Where jury might have found that a slight spacer between pieces of the construction allowed the pieces to engage with each other, the court inappropriately invoked the doctrine of vitiation to rule on a claim that the two pieces did not engage.
The lower cutting deck was not necessarily substantially planar, or something along those lines.
DEERE & CO. V. BUSH HOG, LLC.
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Federal Circuit -- DEERE & CO. V. BUSH HOG, LLC.
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