Legal Opinion
Foster Wheeler Corp. v. Aqua-Chem, Inc.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided November 30, 1967No. Civ. A. No. 41713PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WEINER, District Judge.
This phase of a patent controversy is before us on defendant’s motion to dismiss or transfer.
Plaintiff Foster Wheeler is a manufacturer of a flash evaporating apparatus for the distillation of water. Defendant Aqua-Chem is a competitor holding patents on such an apparatus which are the subject of this suit, wherein Foster Wheeler moved, on December 13, 1966, for declaratory judgment under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1338(a) and 2201 to determine the validity of the Aqua-Chem Letters Patent Nos. Re. 25,232 and 3,-213,000. Aqua-Chem, in turn, has petitioned to dismiss, or, in the…
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