Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corp. v. Dory

MEMORANDUM OPINION

BRIAN BARNETT DUFF, District Judge.

This court has become the primary American setting for a world war between two inventors, Richard Wolf GmbH and Jacques Dory. Wolf is a West German Corporation which has an American subsidiary, Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corporation. Wolf claims to have invented a device known as an extracorporeal lithotriptor, a device which Wolf has patented overseas. The lithotriptor is a machine which uses sound waves to pulverize kidney and gall stones in the human body without requiring surgery. Dory is a citizen of France, who assigned his own…