Rochester Ropes, Inc. v. The Danielson Manufacturing Co.

Defendant asks us to overturn the judgment of the district court enjoining it from threatening plaintiff’s customers with patent infringement litigation and dismissing its counterclaim for misuse of confidential information. The determination of the respective rights and duties of the parties involved complicated and technical questions of fact about the relative merits of various processes for producing nylon-coated wires. Judge Smith’s carefully developed findings, which are against the defendant on all points, include those of no infringement of defendant’s process, no disclosure of any…