Legal Opinion
Johnston v. Textron, Inc.
District Court, D. Rhode Island
Decided January 27, 1984No. Civ. A. 80-0644 PPublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PETTINE, Senior District Judge.
This patent suit involving slide clasps raises issues of validity, infringement, intervening rights and false marking. The plaintiffs claim the defendant falsely marked its slide clasp as “patented,” and infringed their reissued patent; the defendant disputes the allegations and further, it asserts acquisition of intervening rights pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 252.
In 1969 the plaintiff James R. Johnston, was issued an original patent (No. 3,427,-691) for a slide clasp, which device is at issue here; the clasp is a “Coupling Device.” In 1974 the plaintiff U.S.…
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