Legal Opinion
In Re Allen Compound Bow Patent Litigation
United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Decided March 3, 1978No. 324PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
2Per curiam
This litigation consists of six actions pending in four districts: three actions in the District of Utah, and one each in the Central District of California, the Eastern District of Illinois, and the Western District of Wisconsin.
Allen Archery, Inc. (Allen Archery) is the owner by assignment from Holless W. Allen of a patent issued in 1969 on the “compound bow” — an archery bow with draw force multiplying attachments that allegedly employs principles totally different from the long bows and recurve bows used by archers for many centuries. All the actions in this litigation…
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