Legal Opinion

Willemijn Houdstermaatschappij, BV v. Standard Microsystems Corp.

District Court, S.D. New York

Decided May 14, 1996No. 95 Civ. 8544 (RO)PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

OWEN, District Judge:

Willemijn Houdstermaatschappij, BV (“Willemijn”) petitions this court to confirm an arbitration award which denied Standard Microsystems Corporation (“SMC”) benefits under a most-favored-licensee clause contained in the parties’ October 1,1992 License Agreement. SMC’s petition urges the court to vacate the award as manifestly unjust.

Willemijn is a holding company incorporated in the Netherlands whose primary business is the licensing of U.S. Patent Re. 31,-852 (“the ’852 patent”). The ’852 patent, which was issued in 1985 as a reissue of an earlier 1981 patent, describes…

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General Talking Pictures Corp. v. Western Electric Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1938

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