Farmer Bros. Co. v. Coca-Cola Company, Inc.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

NOEL, District Judge.

This is an action for patent infringement arising under the United States Patent Laws. The Court has jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1338(a). Plaintiff received United States Letters Patent 3,459,558, for an invention in a coffee pellet process. The patent discloses a process for - incorporating coffee chaff into roast and ground coffee products. -Defendant is alleged to have been, and to be at present, using a coffee pellet process embodying the patented invention.

For some time, both parties have engaged in extensive discovery and pretrial…