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1 year agoThe Split on Pleading Scienter for Inequitable Conduct
by David Hricik, Mercer Law School
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) requires that fraud or mistake be pled with particularity.The Federal Circuit has held that, although inequitable conduct is "broader than fraud" inequitable conduct must be pled with particularity in Exergen Corp. v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 575 F.3d 1312, 1330 (Fed.
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) requires that fraud or mistake be pled with particularity.The Federal Circuit has held that, although inequitable conduct is "broader than fraud" inequitable conduct must be pled with particularity in Exergen Corp. v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 575 F.3d 1312, 1330 (Fed.