Legal Opinion
Cohn v. Compax Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 14, 1982PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
opinion of the court
Mollen, P. J.
On this appeal, we are called upon to examine the doctrine of patent misuse. The issue at bar arises out of the defendant’s efforts to avoid its obligations under a contract for the transfer of rights to certain patent applications and resulting patents. We turn first to a brief review of the pertinent facts.
The Cohn family has been involved in the manufacture of textile machinery since 1929. In 1957, Eugene Cohn and his brother Joseph played a major part in the invention of a process to eliminate shrinkage in the laundering of tubular *365knit garments. The…
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