Legal Opinion
Bela Seating Company, Inc. v. Poloron Products, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 25, 1971No. 17444PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EILEY, Circuit Judge.
This is a patent infringement suit, brought by Bela Seating Company, Inc. (Bela), with the customary defenses of invalidity and non-infringement filed by defendant Poloron Products, Inc. (Poloron). Poloron also filed a defense and a counter-claim both based upon alleged patent misuse in violation of antitrust laws. The district court concluded, 297 F.Supp. 489, that Poloron had infringed eleven of eighteen claims of Junkunc Patent No. 2,954,073 in suit. 1 **Judgment was for Bela, with a grant of injunctive relief and an order for compensatory damages. The court dismissed…
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