Legal Opinion
Farbenfabriken Bayer A.G. v. National Distillers & Chemical Corp.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 18, 1971No. 70 Civ. 3214PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.
Plaintiff, Farbenfabriken Bayer A. G. (hereafter “Bayer”), and the defendant, National Distillers and Chemical Corporation (hereafter “National”), are involved in a series of litigations centering about two patents, one owned by Bayer and the other by National. The two patents relate to a process for making vinyl acetate by reacting ethylene, acetic acid and oxygen in the presence of a Group VIII noble metal catalyst, including palladium. Bayer’s method is a liquid phase process and National’s is a vapor phase process. National has a plant in Houston, Texas,…
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