Legal Opinion
Dorr-Oliver Inc. v. Fluid-Quip, Inc.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided August 17, 1995No. 93 C 0842PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
I. Introduction 1
GETTLEMAN, District Judge.
This is a case about corn, clams, copying and confusion. The story begins decades ago, when plaintiff Dorr-Oliver Incorporated (“Dorr-Oliver”) 2 invented a new way to process com using centrifugal force. Prior to these inventions, the corn wet milling industry separated the germ, fiber, starch and gluten (protein) from corn kernels through a time-consuming settling process.
In the 1950s Dorr-Oliver introduced a number of new devices, including the hydro-cyclone starch washer, into which the “slurry” (the mixture of water…
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- Dorr-Oliver, Incorporated v. Fluid-Quip, Incorporated and Andrew FrankoCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1996
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