Legal Opinion
Borden, Inc. v. Occidental Petroleum Corporation
District Court, S.D. Texas
Decided June 19, 1974No. Civ. A. 70-H-149PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND OPINION
CARL O. BUE, Jr., District Judge.
This is a highly complex patent infringement suit involving what is alleged by plaintiff to be a “specifically claimed method of defluorinating phosphate rock” which is a “significant improvement of an earlier commercial process”. The products of both processes are used as ,j)hosphatie fertilizers and animal feed supplements.
Plaintiff Borden, Inc., (hereinafter referred to as “Borden”) is the owner of United States Patent 2,995,437 [Hollingsworth, filed 1959, granted 1961] (hereinafter referred to as the ’437 patent) which was obtained by…
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