Legal Opinion
Rohm and Haas Company v. Crystal Chemical Company and Joe C. Eller
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided December 7, 1983No. Appeal 83-599PublishedCited by 112 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RICH, Circuit Judge.
This patent appeal is from the October 27, 1982, judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Sitting without a jury, it held claims 1-3, 6, and 8-12 of U.S. Patent No. 3,816,092 (RH patent or Wilson patent), issued June 11, 1974, to Rohm and Haas (RH or R & H) as assignee of the inventors, for “Herbicidal 3,1-dichloroanilides,” valid and infringed by Crystal Chemical Co. and Joe C. Eller (collectively Crystal).1 Because R & H intentionally made material misrepresentations to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) the effects of…
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