Legal Opinion
Roberts v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided July 20, 1987No. 80-5986Published
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
KOCORAS, District Judge:
This patent infringement action is before this court for an appellate-style review of six grounds which the defendant believes led to an infirm verdict following the original trial of this case. For the following reasons, the court finds that none of these arguments has merit.
I. THE DEVICE
The device at issue here is a quick-release socket wrench upon which plaintiff Peter Roberts obtained a patent in 1965. To a layperson, the principal difference between a conventional socket wrench and the quick-release socket wrench is that two hands are needed to…
2Cases cited29 opinions
- Graham v. John Deere Co. of Kansas CitySupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Roberts v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Central Soya Company, Inc. v. Geo. A. Hormel & CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1983
- Union Carbide Corporation v. American Can CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1984
- H.M. Stickle, G. Martinez, I.M. Garcia, J.M. Davis, and B.M. Goodstein, and Double Jj Corporation-La Hacienda Mexican Food MacHinery v. Heublein, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1983
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