Legal Opinion
Lewis Manufacturing Co. v. Chisholm-Ryder Co.
District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania
Decided July 3, 1979No. Civ. A. No. 79-8 ERIEPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WEBER, Chief Judge.
In its present antitrust Complaint, Lewis Manufacturing Co. (Lewis) contends that Chisholm-Ryder Company, Inc. (Chisholm-Ryder) effectively precluded it from competition in the market for grape picking machines in 1968-1978 by trying to enforce rights under U. S. Patent No. 3,380,236 which Chisholm-Ryder allegedly knew had been obtained by fraud and misrepresentation to the patent office. In an earlier case which Chisholm-Ryder brought against Lewis for patent infringement, this Court found that all claims of the patent in ques*747tion, except claims 14 and 15, were…
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