Legal Opinion
Core-Vent Corp. v. Nobel Industries Ab, and Per-Ingvar Branemark Tomas Albrektsson Ulf Lekholm Lars Sennerby
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 16, 1993No. 91-56493PublishedCited by 258 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:
We are called upon to decide whether a federal district court in California should exercise personal jurisdiction over four doctors in Sweden who allegedly defamed a California corporation in articles published in international medical journals.
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Until very recently, Core-Vent was a California corporation with its headquarters in Encino.1 Core-Vent and its principal competitor, Nobelpharma AB (“Nobelpharma”), a Swedish corporation, are the two largest manufacturers of dental implants in the world.
Branemark, Albrektsson, and Lekholm are professors at the University of…
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