Legal Opinion
Kimberly-Clark Corporation v. Johnson & Johnson and Personal Products Company
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided October 9, 1984No. Appeal 83-1066PublishedCited by 165 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RICH, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from the February 4, 1983, March 15, 1983 (219 USPQ 214), and April 5, 1983, 573 F.Supp. 1179 (219 USPQ 217), judgments of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, sitting without a jury, holding that Kimberly-Clark Corporation’s Roeder patent No. 3,672,371 (’371) issued June 27, 1972, for “Sanitary Napkin with Improved Adhesive Fastening Means” was not infringed, “unenforceable” because of “fraud on the PTO,” and invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 103. We affirm the holding of non-infringement, reverse the holdings of…
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