International Business MacHines Corp. v. Comdisco, Inc.

OPINION

CHANDLER, Vice Chancellor.

This suit is based on a dispute over rights in computer equipment. The parties are as follows. International Business Machines Corporation (“IBM”) is a well-known manufacturer of, among other things, computer equipment. Plaintiff IBM Credit Corporation (“Credit”) is in the business of buying IBM equipment, including computer equipment, and selling or leasing that equipment. Defendant Comdisco, Inc. (“Comdisco”) also buys and resells or leases computer equipment. Thus, Comdisco is a competitor of Credit.

One of the machines which IBM produces and in which both…