Legal Opinion
Naxon Telesign Corp. v. GTE Information Systems, Inc.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided December 22, 1980No. 79 C 3949PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
SHADUR, District Judge.
Naxon Telesign Corporation (“Naxon”) filed this action against GTE Information Systems, Inc. (“GTE”), alleging that GTE had infringed Naxon-owned Patent No. 3,281,824 (the “Patent”) by its manufacture, leasing and sale of moving stock ticker displays. This memorandum opinion and order deals with four pretrial motions filed by the parties:
1. Naxon’s motion to treat the filing date of this action as retroactive to the filing date of the complaint in Naxon v. GTE Sylvania, Inc., et al., 79 C 1289 (“Sylvania ” or the “Sylvania action”), is denied.
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