Legal Opinion
Bp Chemicals Limited v. Union Carbide Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided September 15, 1993No. 91-1256PublishedCited by 186 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAULINE NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.
BP Chemicals Limited filed a declaratory judgment action against Union Carbide Corporation in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, seeking a declaration that Union Carbide’s United States Patent No. 4,543,399, issued September 24, 1985, is invalid, unenforceable, and not infringed by BP Chemicals’ process for the production of certain polymers. The district court dismissed the action for lack of a justiciable controversy. 1 We affirm.
Background
BP Chemicals and Union Carbide are competitors in the business of licensing technology…
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