Legal Opinion
Imax Corporation v. Cinema Technologies, Inc. Neil Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 19, 1998No. 96-16094PublishedCited by 123 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SNEED, Circuit Judge:
Capitalism requires that both property rights and vigorous competition, each within the limits fixed by law, coexist. The tension between these two imperatives generates many disputes. This case is concerned with one such dispute.
In this case, Imax Corporation (“Imax”) seeks to protect its interests in large format motion picture projectors, generally known as “rolling loop” projectors, with respect to which Imax acquired several patents in the 1970s. Thereafter, it manufactured and sold over 100 “rolling loop” projectors worldwide. Certain of these patents have expired…
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