Legal Opinion
Shatterproof Glass Corporation v. Libbey-Owens-Ford Company
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 31, 1973No. 72-1717PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CELEBREZZE, Circuit Judge.
We consider an appeal from a judgment of the District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Western Division, 350 F.Supp. 60, finding that Ap-pellee, Libbey-Owens-Ford Company (LOF), had not breached a “favored nations” clause in its patent license agreement with Appellant, Shatterproof Glass Corporation (Shatterproof). The clause, included in the parties' 1955 license agreement, provided that LOF would give Appellant the benefit of any more favorable “terms or rates of royalty” that it might grant to any other licensee. 1 Appellant contends that this clause was…
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