Mimica v. Area Interstate Trucking, Inc.

Plaintiff Ognjen Mímica brought an action for monetary, declaratory and injunctive relief concerning the invention of a device called the Quality Control Carrier (QCC). The action challenged the validity of plaintiff’s assignment to defendant of his rights in the patent application for the QCC. The court granted plaintiff’s motion for declaratory judgment. This appeal is taken pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 304(a). (134 Ill. 2d R. 304(a).) At issue is the propriety of the granting of declaratory judgment.

In the late summer of 1990, plaintiff invented a new kind of truck trailer which improves…