Legal Opinion
William Whitman Co. v. Universal Oil Products Co.
District Court, D. Delaware
Decided July 16, 1954No. Civ. A. 987PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RODNEY, District Judge.
This action, based on fraud, traces its devious course back to 1929 and 1931. This preliminary and abbreviated statement of facts is largely taken from a former opinion of this Court of July 12, 1950, 92 F.Supp. 885.
In 1929 and 1931 defendant’s predecessor, a South Dakota corporation of the same name as defendant, commenced two suits in this court against the Winkler-Koch Engineering Co. and the Root Refining Company, respectively, charging them with the infringement of two of its patents, the Egloff and Dubbs patents. These suits were consolidated for trial, and an…
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3Cited by16 opinions
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