Legal Opinion
Wallace Clark & Co., Inc. v. Acheson Industries, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 26, 1976No. 526, Docket 75-7483PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Circuit Judge:
Wallace Clark & Company (“Wallace Clark”) appeals from a partial summary judgment entered by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Edward Weinfeld, Judge, denying Wallace Clark the right to contest the validity of the patent underlying its licensing agreement with Acheson Industries (“Acheson”), the defendant and the holder of the patent, where, in an earlier action between the parties, the court had already adjudicated the validity and the infringement of the patent in a consent decree. We affirm.
In November of 1971, Wallace Clark…
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