Legal Opinion
In Re Multidistrict Litigation Involving Butterfield Patent Infringement
United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Decided February 2, 1970No. 29PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
JOSEPH S. LORD, III, Judge of the Panel.
This litigation involves the Butterfield Patent No. 2,544,246. There are presently pending 32 actions seeking damages for infringement in 18 different districts and plaintiff has moved under Title 28 U.S.C. Section 1407 for transfer and consolidation of pretrial proceedings. There seems to be little doubt that several questions of fact are common to all the lawsuits. The issues of the scope of the patent, and its validity, including questions of obviousness, invention, prior art and commercial success are undoubtedly common to all…
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- In Re Protection Devices & Equipment & Central Station Protection Service Antitrust CasesUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1968
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