Valmont Industries, Inc. v. Yuma Manufacturing Company

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

WILLIAM E. DOYLE, District Judge.

This is a patent infringement action, wherein the plaintiffs seek a declaratory judgment that U. S. Patent No. 2,604,359 is valid and infringed by the defendants, an injunction against further infringement and an accounting. 1 In the original complaint and subsequent amendments, the plaintiffs have charged both defendants with infringement of claims 8, 9, 10 and 13 of U. S. Patent No. 2,604,359; defendant Enresco with actively inducing infringement of U. S. Patent No. 2,604,-359 by licensing to Yuma the right to manufacture and sell…