Mitts & Merrill, Inc. v. Shred Pax Corp.

ORDER

ELAINE E. BUCKLO, United States Magistrate.

Plaintiff, Mitts & Merrill, Inc. (“Mitts”), seeks a declaration that certain patents licensed by it under an exclusive license from defendants, Shred Pax Corporation and Alvis Kaczmarek (“Shred Pax”), are invalid. The patents are for trash shredding and compacting devices. Mitts also seeks a declaration that the machines made by it do not infringe Shred Pax’s patents and alleges that Mitts misrepresented the advances supposedly disclosed by the patents and failed to disclose that another manufacturer was making trash shredding devices that were…