Legal Opinion
Howard A. Fromson v. Advance Offset Plate, Inc., Graphcoat, Inc., News Publishing Company of Framingham, Newspapers of New England, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided November 8, 1983No. Appeal 83-850, 83-913, 83-914 and 83-915PublishedCited by 183 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARKEY, Chief Judge.
Appeal from four judgments of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts holding that claims 1, 4, 6, 7,12 and 16 of U.S. Patent 3,181,461 issued to Fromson are not infringed or contributorily infringed. We vacate and remand.
BACKGROUND
A. The Technology
The Fromson patent involves a process for making a photographic printing plate for use in the art of lithography. The art involves creation on a printing surface of certain areas that are hydrophilic (water attracting) and organophobic (ink repelling) and other areas that are organophilic (ink attracting) and…
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