Legal Opinion
Brandt, Inc. v. Crane
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided March 17, 1983No. 81 C 6989PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
ASPEN, District Judge:
Plaintiff Brandt, Inc. (“Brandt”) brought this patent action against William Crane, doing business as Money Processing Consultants (“Crane”), alleging infringement of its Patent No. 4,114,804 (“the patent”), which covers a counterfeit bill detection device manufactured and distributed by Brandt. 1 The. matter now comes before this Court on Crane’s motions to dismiss and for summary judgment. 2 For the reasons set forth below, the motions will be denied.
According to its abstract, the patent covers a machine that counts stacks of documents,…
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