Legal Opinion
Isi International, Inc. v. Borden Ladner Gervais Llp, Successor to Scott & Aylen
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 2, 2001No. 99-1815PublishedCited by 186 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Bert Reitsma, a physician living in Ontario, invented a device for draining surgical wounds. He asked Yves Menard, a solicitor at Scott & Aylen (based in Ottawa) to incorporate a firm to exploit this invention. (Scott & Aylen and several other partnerships merged into Borden Lad-ner Gervais llp after this suit began; for clarity we retain the “S&A” acronym.) Reitsma also engaged Max Wood, one of S&A’s patent agents, to obtain patents for the invention. Wood hired a law firm based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to prosecute a patent application in the United States. In…
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