Legal Opinion
Foster Wheeler Corp. v. BABCOCK & WILCON CO.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided April 8, 1981No. 76 Civ. 1224 (WCC)PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CONNER, District Judge.
This action was brought by plaintiffs (collectively “Foster Wheeler”) against defendant (“Babcock”) for a declaratory judgment that Babcock’s U.S. patents Nos. 3,834,358 and 3,927,646 (“the ’358 and ’646 patents,” respectively) relating to steam generators are invalid and do not cover any of the steam generators built and sold by Foster Wheeler.
With the consent of the parties, the Court conducted a separate trial limited to the issues:(1) whether Claims 6, 7 and 8 of the ’646 patent and Claim 11 of the ’358 patent (the claims on which Babcock has elected to stand…
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