Legal Opinion
Mississippi Chemical Corporation v. Swift Agricultural Chemicals Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided September 23, 1983No. 83-766PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON PETITION FOR A WRIT OF MANDAMUS
FRIEDMAN, Circuit Judge.
This is a petition for a writ of mandamus directing a United States District Judge to grant a motion for summary judgment of patent invalidity in a patent infringement suit. The motion, based on Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation, 402 U.S. 313, 91 S.Ct. 1434, 28 L.Ed.2d 788 (1971), urges that the patentee be estopped from relitigating the validity of the patent at issue in the present case because it has already been declared invalid in a prior case after a full and fair trial. We grant the petition,…
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