Legal Opinion
Leonard R. Kahn v. General Motors Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided November 17, 1989No. 89-1325PublishedCited by 100 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAULINE NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.
Leonard R. Kahn appeals the order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1 granting General Motors’ motion to stay the action before it, in favor of an action subsequently filed against Kahn and Hazeltine Research Inc. by Motorola, Inc. in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. We vacate the stay and remand for further proceedings.
Background
Leonard R. Kahn is the inventor of United States Patent No. 4,018,994 (“the ’994 patent”). The action here appealed (called “the New York action”) was…
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