AMPHENOL CORPORATION v. General Time Corporation

MEMORANDUM OPINION

WILL, District Judge.

Plaintiff brought tljis action under 35 U.S.C. § 281, seeking money damages and injunctive relief against defendant’s alleged infringement of plaintiff’s United States Patent No. 3,137,122. This court has jurisdiction over the action under 28 U.S.C. § 1338(a). From the evidence presented at a bench trial of the instant action, we conclude that the patent in suit was invalid and therefore not infringed.

Both plaintiff (Borg) and defendant (G-T) manufacture electric automobile clocks which they sell to automobile manufacturers. The automobile clocks dealt…