Legal Opinion
Upjohn Company v. Italian Drugs Importing Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided January 9, 1961PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MacMAHON, District Judge.
This is an action for patent infringement tried by the Court without a jury. The patent involved was issued to John T. Cornell on March 29, 1949 for a surgical sponge made of gelatin foam hardened to water insolubility and absorbable by a living body in from ten to ninety days.
Plaintiff, The Upjohn Company, a Michigan corporation, is assignee of the patent and manufactures and sells the surgical sponge under the trademark “Gelfoam”. Defendant companies, New York corporations, import the accused product from Italy where it is manufactured and market it in this country…
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