Legal Opinion
E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company v. Dr. John Joseph Okuley
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided December 10, 2003No. 01-3074PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BOGGS, Circuit Judge.
The defendant, Dr. John Joseph Okuley, appeals the summary judgment for the plaintiff, E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company (“DuPont”), in a dispute involving both contract and patent elements. Okuley helped discover FAD2, one of the genes encoding the Fatty Acid Desaturase enzyme, while an employee of Washington State University (“WSU”), which had a research collaboration agreement (“RCA”) with DuPont that assigned to DuPont rights to intellectual property discovered in the course of the collaboration. When Okuley ceased cooperating with the processing of DuPont’s…
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