Legal Opinion
Safe Flight Instrument Corp. v. McDonnell-Douglas Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 27, 1973No. 71-1751PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMLEY, Circuit Judge:
Safe Flight Instrument Corporation (Safe Flight) brought this patent infringement action in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on December 31, 1968. In a six-count amended complaint Safe Flight charged defendants, McDonnell-Douglas Corporation (MDC) and Sperry Rand Corporation (Sperry), with infringement of Safe Flight’s U.S. Letters Patent No. 3,043,540 (’540 patent), and with the improper use of trade secrets.
The ’540 patent is entitled “Aircraft Instruments” and describes a closed-loop aircraft instrument system intended to assist…
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