Legal Opinion
Unique Concepts, Incorporated, and Floyd M. Baslow v. Ted Manuel and Upholstered Wall Works, Incorporated
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 23, 1991No. 90-1674PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Ted Manuel quit his employment at Unique Concepts, Inc., and started his own firm, Upholstered Wall Works. Unique Concepts believed that Manuel’s new business was producing products for which it held a patent, and it filed suit under the patent laws. Manuel and Upholstered Wall Works (collectively Manuel) responded with a counterclaim based on the state law of defamation and a state consumer protection law. These counterclaims are permissive rather than compulsory, because they arise out of different transactions, Fed.R. Civ.P. 13(a), (b) — to be precise, out of a…
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