Legal Opinion
Stein Associates, Inc. v. Heat and Control, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided November 16, 1984No. Appeal 84-954PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARKEY, Chief Judge.
Appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (district court) denying Stein Associates’ (Stein’s) motion for preliminary injunction. We affirm.
Background
In 1982, Heat and Control, Inc., (H & C) became aware that Stein was offering to sell its Counterflow Oven (CFO) to a British company, G.W. Padley Poultry Ltd. (Padley) and had installed a pilot CFO at Padley’s factory in Lincolnshire, Great Britain. H & C was advised by its British patent counsel that the pilot oven infringed H & C’s two British patents. Accordingly, a…
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