Legal Opinion
Key Manufacturing Group, Inc. v. Microdot, Inc.
District Court, E.D. Michigan
Decided September 9, 1987No. Civ. A. 81-71775PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
PHILIP PRATT, Chief Judge.
Key Manufacturing Group, Inc. (Key), a Michigan corporation, brings this action for patent infringement against Microdot, Inc. (Microdot), a Delaware corporation, which has a manufacturing facility in Sterling Heights, Michigan. Both Key and Microdot manufacture capped wheel nuts for attaching a wheel to an automobile axle. The Towne Robinson Fastener Company, (Towne Robinson) is a division of Key which manufactures capped wheel nuts. Towne Robinson is an assignee of patents which describe several types of capped wheel nuts. Among these…
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