Legal Opinion
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. v. Brainerd
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided January 15, 1974No. Civ. A. 68-298-GPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
W. ARTHUR GARRITY, Jr., District Judge.
This case arises under the patent laws of the United States and especially those statutes, 35 U.S.C. §§ 101-103, which define the standard of patentable invention. Plaintiff, a large electronics corporation which has developed and marketed a system for automatically identifying railroad cars, seeks a declaration that its system does not infringe Patent No. 3,145,921 (hereinafter “Brainerd patent”), of which defendant is patentee, and that said patent is invalid. Defendant, an engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and longtime…
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Forbro Design Corp. v. Raytheon Co.District Court, D. Massachusetts · 1975
- Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. v. Berwick Industries, Inc.District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania · 1975
- Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. v. Henry B. BrainerdCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1974