Legal Opinion
Alco Standard Corp. v. Tennessee Valley Authority
District Court, W.D. Tennessee
Decided October 22, 1984No. 77-2513 HPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HORTON, District Judge.
This is an action for patent infringement brought by plaintiff, Alco Standard Corporation, against defendant, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), and third-party defendant Westinghouse Electric Corporation. TVA hired Westinghouse to inspect turbine rotors in TVA’s generating plants. In performing such inspections for TVA, Westinghouse allegedly used a device that infringed U.S. patent 3,960,006 (006 patent). The 006 patent was issued for an ultrasonic inspection device invented by Robert Smith, an employee of Commercial Machine Works (CMW), which is a division of…
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