Legal Opinion
Heat & Control, Inc. v. Hester Industries, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided March 4, 1986No. Appeal 85-2553PublishedCited by 192 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JACK R. MILLER, Senior Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal by Heat & Control, Inc. from a May 22, 1985, order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia, 1 quashing a deposition subpoena issued by the same court on February 8, 1985. We vacate the order and remand the case to the district court for further proceedings.
BACKGROUND
Heat & Control’s patents relate to an apparatus (a convection oven termed a “counterflow oven” (“CFO”) by the parties) and method for cooking solid food products in circulating steam. 2
Hester Industries, Inc. (“Hester”) is a small…
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