Legal Opinion
E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Shell Oil Co.
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided August 21, 1985PublishedCited by 248 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HORSEY, Justice:
This appeal requires us to determine the limits of a licensee’s right to manufacture and sell a product under grant of a nonexclusive license without right to sublicense. The license agreement expressly prohibited the licensee from sublicensing. It did permit the licensee to make the patented product or to “have [it] made” and to sell the product. We here consider whether a nonexclusive license agreement entered into between E.I. duPont de Nemours and Company, Inc. (“DuPont”) and Shell Oil Company (“Shell”) in 1968 bars licensee Shell from carrying out a 1981 arrangement made…
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