Legal Opinion
Penda Corp. v. United States
United States Court of Federal Claims
Decided September 30, 1993No. 473-89CPublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BRUGGINK, Judge.
Penda Corporation (“Penda”) owns a patent on a plastic pallet, U.S. Letters Patent *542No. 4,428,306 (“the ’306 patent”). Defendant, acting through the United States Postal Service (“Postal Service”), procured 640,000 pallets from third-party defendant Cadillac Products, Incorporated (“Cadillac”). Under its contract, Cadillac supplied the Postal Service with two types of pallets (“the accused pallets”). Penda contends that its patent reads on both of these pallets.
Penda claims that by this procurement the Postal Service used the ’306 patent without providing just…
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