In Re Multidistrict Patent Litigation Involving the Kaehni Patent

*1343OPINION AND ORDER

Before ALFRED P. MURRAH, Chairman, and JOHN MINOR WISDOM, EDWARD WEINFELD, EDWIN A. ROBSON*, WILLIAM H. BECKER, JOSEPH S. LORD, III, and STANLEY A. WEIGEL, Judges of the Panel. PER CURIAM.

The nine actions involved in this multidistrict litigation were brought by Frank J. Kaehni and Marie Kaehni and each charge the infringement of United States Patent No. 2,463,280. Like many of the defendants, we were unable to tell from the complaints exactly how the patent was allegedly being infringed but since there were common plaintiffs and a single patent involved in all nine actions,…