Legal Opinion
Roper Corporation v. Litton Systems, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided March 15, 1985No. Appeal 84-1711PublishedCited by 114 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARKEY, Chief Judge.
Appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, denying Roper Corporation’s (Roper’s) motion for preliminary injunction. 589 F.Supp. 823. We affirm.
BACKGROUND
Roper is the assignee of United States Patent No. 4,028,520, issued June 7,1977 to Sumner H. Torrey (the Roper patent), relat ing to a self-cleaning “common cavity” oven, i.e., an oven capable of operating in three modes: (1) conventional thermal cooking, (2) microwave cooking, and (3) pyrolytic self-cleaning (oven temperature of about 900°F. decomposes…
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