Legal Opinion
Scully Signal Company v. Electronics Corporation of America, Scully Signal Company v. Electronics Corporation of America
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 29, 1977No. 77-1133 and 77-1144PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.
This suit for infringement of a 1957 patent was brought in 1968 by Scully Signal Co. (Scully), the assignee of the patent and its licensor. Electronics Corporation of America (ECA), the defendant, alleged both noninfringement and invalidity. The patent expired before trial, leaving only damages at issue. The case was tried in December, 1975 and January, 1976, and at the end of the presentation of evidence ECA moved to amend its pleadings to allege fraud against the Patent Office by Scully because of a failure to reveal allegedly anticipatory patents, which in…
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