Legal Opinion
Handgards, Inc. v. Johnson & Johnson
District Court, N.D. California
Decided January 7, 1976No. 49451 WHOPublishedCited by 113 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ORRICK, District Judge.
In this antitrust action, plaintiff contends that defendants instituted a series of patent infringement suits against it in bad faith as part of a conspiracy to restrain trade and monopolize the disposable plastic glove industry. The gravamen of plaintiff’s complaint is that defendants accumulated a number of patents in the disposable plastic glove field, in particular the Gerard and Orisini patents, knowing that these patents were invalid or of doubtful validity, and then proceeded to bring infringement actions against plaintiff with the knowledge that the…
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