Legal Opinion
Studiengesellschaft Kohle Mbh, as Trustee for the Max-Planck-Institut Fur Kohlenforschung v. Northern Petrochemical Company
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided February 10, 1986No. Appeal 85-1054PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Per curiam
The judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Studiengesellschaft Kohle mbH v. Northern Petrochemical Company, 225 USPQ 194 (N.D.Ill.1984), which held invalid all the claims of United States Patent No. 4,125,698 (the ’698 process patent) on the basis of double patenting with United States Patent No. 3,113,115 (the '115 catalyst patent), is reversed.
The ruling of the district court that the appellant had not been guilty of laches or other inequitable delay in obtaining the ’698 process patent is affirmed.
Background
In 1980 Studiengesellschaft Kohle mbH…
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