Legal Opinion
E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co. v. Celanese Corp.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 3, 1969No. 68 Civ. 723PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
TYLER, District Judge.
In this suit brought pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 146 to determine priority of invention,1 plaintiff moves for summary judgment declaring the count in interference unpatentable. The motion, therefore raises the question, apparently of first instance in this circuit,2 of whether a district court may summarily consider and resolve an issue of patent-ability in such a suit before determining the question of priority.
The question arises in this case under the following circumstances. Following an interference proceeding before the Board of Patent Interferences and…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Sanford v. KepnerSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Sanford v. KepnerCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1952
- Sperry Rand Corporation, John Presper Eckert, Jr., and John W. Mauchly v. Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1963
- Boyce v. AndersonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1968
- E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. v. Celanese Corp.District Court, S.D. New York · 1968
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Allied-Signal, Inc. v. Allegheny Ludlum Corp.District Court, D. Connecticut · 1990