Legal Opinion

Central Hide & Rendering Co. v. B-M-K Corp.

District Court, D. Delaware

Decided April 20, 1956No. Civ. A. No. 1692PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

RODNEY, District Judge.

The present action is for a declaratory judgment concerning the validity and infringement of a patent No. 2,-702,245 owned by the defendant. The action arises under the Patent Laws of the United States, 28 U.S.C. § 1338, and under the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2201.

The present memorandum concerns but one of several questions presented.

Originally there were four plaintiffs. Attached to the complaint are four identical letters of the defendant to the four plaintiffs, respectively. These letters stated that the patent in question had been issued to the present…

2Cases cited5 opinions

Aetna Life Insurance v. HaworthSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
Dewey & Almy Chemical Co. v. American Anode, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1943
Southern Pac. Co. v. McAdooCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1936
Federal Telephone & Radio Corp. v. Associated Telephone & Telegraph Co.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1948
Apex Hosiery Co. v. Knitting Machines Corp.District Court, D. Delaware · 1950

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