Legal Opinion
H. M. Chase Corp. v. Idaho Potato Processors, Inc.
Idaho Supreme Court
Decided July 12, 1974No. 11041PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DONALDSON, Justice.
In 1949, Henry Chase filed two applications for patents with the United States Patent Office. The actual contents of the two applications will be discussed in detail later, but briefly they described a process for the preparation of frozen potato products. The two patents were subsequently issued to Chase on May 20, 1952.
In December, 1952, Chase and Ore-Ida Potato Products Inc., of Oregon, entered into a license agreement whereby Ore-Ida was authorized to use the patented processes in its plant at Ontario, Oregon, in return for an agreed upon royalty based upon the amount…
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