Legal Opinion
Edward T. Molinaro and Anthony P. Catanzaro v. Fannon/courier Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided October 11, 1984No. Appeal 84-810PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Per curiam
Appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (district court) granting summary judgment of non-infringement of Patent No. 2,906,875 (Molinaro Patent) because there is no material issue of fact, and granting collateral estoppel because the is sues of infringement are identical to those previously decided. We affirm.
Background
The plaintiffs before the district court were the inventor Edward T. Molinaro (Mo-linaro) and the assignee of a 50 percent interest in the patent, Anthony P. Catanza-ro (Catanzaro) who has undertaken to represent Molinaro’s…
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