Legal Opinion
A. & E. Plastik Pak Co., Inc. v. Monsanto Company
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 5, 1968No. 21420_1PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MERRILL, Circuit Judge:
This appeal is taken pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1292(a) (1), from an interlocutory order denying a temporary injunction.
Background
Until December 3, 1963, Monsanto held a patent on an extremely clear, durable type of plastic sheet known as “biaxially oriented polystyrene sheet” and, in the trade, called “OPS”. It remains the major U. S. supplier of this sheet. Soon after the expiration of its patent, A. & E., a producer of finished products from this type of plastic sheet, began attempts to develop a plant to make OPS for itself, using information disclosed by the patent.
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