District Court's Five Year Delay in Issuing Opinion After a Patent Trial Did Not Warrant Reassignment of the Case on Remand

According to the IP Law Observer, in Cohesive Tech. Inc. v. Waters Corp., Fed. Cir. No. 08-1029 (10/7/08), "the panel considered several issues in affirming in part rulings by the district court on a dispute about patents for high pressure liquid chromatography, and refused to reassign the case despite a five year delay after trial before the district court issued its opinion."

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