( March 3, 2026, 11:44 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held that genuine questions of material fact persist in a dispute over whether a plaintiff cross-appellant’s claims that another entity was attempting to monopolize the market for a type of steel tubing through fraudulently obtained patents, leading to the vacating of both a Texas federal judge’s grant of summary judgment in the defendant entities’ favor and a finding in the plaintiff’s favor that the defendants had acted inequitably....