Union Asbestos & Rubber Company, by Change of Name Unarco Industries, Inc. v. Evans Products Company

KILEY, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff’s appeal from the district court’s dismissal of its patent infringement suit for improper venue raises the question: Whether defendant’s activities, in the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, amounted to “acts of infringement” of plaintiff’s patent. 1 We disagree with the district court’s negative answer to the question.

Since defendant concedes that it has a regular and established place of business within the district, venue will lie if defendant, a non-resident of the district, has infringed plaintiff’s patent by selling or using the accused…