Lemelson v. Bendix Corp.

OPINION

CALEB M. WRIGHT, Senior District Judge.

This antitrust action arises out of patent infringement litigation brought by a patentee, Jerome H. Lemelson, against the United States. The infringement action, which was commenced in the Court of Claims on September 4, 1979, alleged that the government’s use of certain, coordinate measuring machines (“CMMs”), purchased from suppliers other than Lemelson, infringed on his patent claims. Two of the government’s CMMs suppliers, Bendix Corporation (hereinafter “Bendix”), and Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co. (hereinafter “Brown & Sharpe”),…