Legal Opinion
FMC Corp. v. Hennessy Industries, Inc.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided December 24, 1986No. 79 C 4660PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
MORAN, District Judge.
This litigation is but one facet of ongoing commercial warfare with a tenacity and duration rivaling the Peloponnesian War. And this memorandum and order relates only to the first facet of a trifurcated litigation. The parties, after over 3500 pages of trial testimony and numerous depositions and exhibits, filed post-trial briefs in excess of 450 pages, and this court, after long delay, is finally prepared to rule. Unlike many patent cases this litigation has been fact-intensive, turning on “who, what, where, when” primary facts. Like many patent…
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