Legal Opinion
Grafon Corporation v. Elmer P. Hausermann and Marten C. Hausermann
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 20, 1979No. 79-1114PublishedCited by 178 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM J. CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge.
The district court dismissed the complaint of plaintiff-appellant Grafon Corporation (Grafon) for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Because we find that Grafon submitted competent proof of an actual, justiciable controversy between itself and. defendants-appellees Elmer P. and Marten C. Hausermann (Hausermanns), over the validity of the Hausermann patents, we reverse and remand this action which seeks a declaratory judgment of patent invalidity.
The record demonstrates that on August 16, 1971 Grafon entered into the first 1 of two agreements with…
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