Legal Opinion
Eltra Corporation v. Basic Incorporated
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided June 18, 1979No. 77-3364PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WEICK, Circuit Judge.
The suit in the District Court was brought by Eltra Corporation (Eltra) against Basic Incorporated (Basic) seeking a declaratory judgment that Basic’s Reissue Patent No. Re. 27,111, entitled “Pitch-Bonded Refractory Composition” was invalid and noninfringed. Basie responded by counterclaiming against Eltra for infringement of its patent by North American Refractories Company (Narco), a division of Eltra. The subject matter of the patent in suit is a process for making pitch-bonded refractory bricks used to line furnaces in which steel is made by the basic oxygen process.
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