Legal Opinion
Allan Block Corp. v. County Materials Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 14, 2008No. 07-2020, 07-2210PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
In two contracts, one in 1993 and the other in 1997, Allan Block licensed County Materials to manufacture Allan Block’s patented concrete blocks. The contracts forbade County Materials to manufacture competing concrete blocks (with certain exceptions) for as long as the contract was in effect and for 18 months after it was terminated. But when the licenses were terminated (both at the same time), County Materials decided not to honor the 18-month post-termination covenants not to compete. Its excuse was that enforcement would be patent misuse, and it filed a suit in a…
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