Legal Opinion
Kucharczyk v. Regents of the University of California
District Court, N.D. California
Decided May 6, 1999No. C 94-3886 CRB, C 96-2247 CRBPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
BREYER, District Judge.
Plaintiffs John Kucharczyk and Michael Moseley have filed suit against UC Regents and the Nycomed defendants (Ny-comed Salutar and Nycomed Imaging A.S., collectively “Nycomed”), alleging that they acted to improperly deprive plaintiffs of their rightful share of the financial rewards of a patented medical technique they developed. A number of summary judgment motions are presently before the Court.
BACKGROUND
A. The Patent
The dispute arises out of the invention of a particular kind of magnetic resonance imaging technique (“MRI”). MRI is a process…
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