183167P.pdf   06/18/2020  Inline Packaging, LLC  v.  Graphic Packaging, Int'l
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  18-3167
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota   
   [PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Gruender and Benton, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Antitrust and Patents. In action alleging Graphic monopolized 
   the susceptor-packaging market for frozen microwave foods by using 
   anticompetitive conduct, including fraudulently procuring patents, making 
   baseless litigation threats relating to the patents and using 
   predatory-discount bundling, the district court did not err in granting 
   Graphic's motion for summary judgment; the record did not establish 
   Graphic fraudulently procured patents on packaging concepts and designs 
   through false claims of ownership; because plaintiff failed to establish 
   fraud with respect to the procurement of the patents, Graphic's 
   patent-litigation could not be a sham or baseless; with respect to the 
   bundling claim, plaintiff failed to show Graphic held sufficient monopoly 
   or market power regarding the sale of paperboard packaging to survive 
   summary judgment; the district court did not err in determining the 
   complaint failed to allege an exclusive dealing claim; because plaintiff 
   failed to establish that Graphic fraudulently procured its patents or that 
   its patent-infringement suits were objectively baseless, plaintiff's 
   tortious-interference claims cannot survive federal preemption.