Legal Opinion
National Research & Development Corp. v. Varian Associates, Inc.
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided May 4, 1995No. Civ. A. 89-2459 (HAA)PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HAROLD A. ACKERMAN, District Judge.
In 1989, plaintiff, the National Research and Development Corporation (“NRDC” or “plaintiff’) 1 , brought this action for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 3,999,188 (“’118 patent” or “Hoult patent”) against Varían Associates, Inc. (‘Varían” or “defendant”).
The Hoult patent discloses four claims. Claim 1 describes a nuclear magnetic resonance (“NMR”) apparatus made up of speci- fled components including, among other things, a radio-frequency transmitter means for exciting a specimen by means of a train of radio-frequency pulses, successive ones which…
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