Carlson v. Matthysse

WEINFELD, District Judge.

Carlson and his assignee, Aircraft-Marine Products, Inc., co-plaintiffs, instituted this action against Matthysse and his assignee, Burndy Engineering Company, Inc. At issue is the patent-ability of certain electrical connectors. The corporate parties are competing manufacturers of such connectors. The individual litigants are inventors of the devices in question who respectively assigned their rights to the corporate parties. Plaintiffs by this action seek an adjudication that Carlson and not Matthysse was the prior inventor of the subject matter in question.

Plaintiff…