In re Multidistrict Litigation Involving Deering Milliken Patent

OPINION AND ORDER

STANLEY A. WEIGEL, Judge of the Panel.

The eases included in this proceeding involve (1) Deering Milliken Research Corporation (hereinafter DMRC) which is purportedly the exclusive United States licensee of a variety of French patents and (2) fourteen of DMRC’s sublicensees. The license agreements cover patented processes for endowing fiber with a “false twist” which gives yarn stretch and bulk.

Following the Supreme Court decision in Lear, Inc. v. Adkins, 395 U.S. 653, 89 S.Ct. 1902, 23 L.Ed.2d 610 (1969), DM RC and the fourteen sublicensees have become involved in litigation…