Legal Opinion
In Re Suess Patent Infringement Litigation
United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Decided August 23, 1971No. 74PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
2Per curiam
The common plaintiffs 1 in ten patent infringement suits in seven districts have moved the Panel for transfer under Section 1407 to the Northern District of Illinois. Each of the actions is for infringement of the Suess patent, which plaintiffs assert covers the basic oxygen process of refining steel. Although the plaintiffs urge that common questions of fact are raised in these cases by the issue of patent validity and by the antitrust counterclaims asserted by several defendants, the most important pretrial issue is collateral estoppel.
In a prior action brought by these…
3Cases cited2 opinions
- Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois FoundationSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Henry J. Kaiser Company v. McLouth Steel Corp.District Court, E.D. Michigan · 1966
4Cited by5 opinions
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