Legal Opinion
Roach v. Crouch
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided November 23, 1994No. 92-1925PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEUMAN, Justice.
This interlocutory appeal challenges the district court’s ruling that plaintiff Maurice Roach’s claims to sole inventorship of a patent cannot be litigated in state court. We affirm.
In 1980, Roach and two colleagues formed Iowa Engineered Processes Corporation (IEPC) to develop, manufacture, and market a machine utilizing a “cascade” process for cleaning and debarring metal parts. The process was patented by Roach and his partners who thereafter assigned the patent to IEPC. At that time, Roach was IEPC’s president and majority shareholder.
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