Legal Opinion
In Re Cable Tie Patent Litigation
United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Decided March 26, 1980No. 412Published
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
Before ANDREW A. CAFFREY, Chairman, ROY W. HARPER, CHARLES R. WEINER, EDWARD S. NORTHROP, and ROBERT H. SCHNACKE, Judges of the Panel. PER CURIAM.
This litigation consists of four actions, three pending in the Northern District of Illinois and one pending in the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Each action involves claims concerning one or more patents covering one-piece plastic cable ties (self-locking devices which are molded from nylon and designed to encircle a bundle of electrical wires to group the wires together).
The first Illinois action was filed in September, 1976, by…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois FoundationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- In Re Equity Funding Corp. of America Securities LitigationUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1974
- Illinois Tool Works, Inc. v. Foster Grant Co., Inc.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1976
- All States Plastic Manufacturing Co., Inc., an Illinois Corporation v. Weckesser Company, Inc., an Illinois CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1974
- All States Plastic Mfg. Co., Inc. v. Weckesser Co., Inc.District Court, N.D. Illinois · 1973
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