Zip Dee, Inc. v. Dometic Corp.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SHADUR, Senior District Judge.

Anyone who has followed the extended succession of rulings and opinions in this patent infringement case 1 — either of necessity or, though this is hard to imagine, as a matter of choice — has had to be aware of this Court’s discomfort with some of the conclusions to which it has been driven. There is something intuitively troubling in the notion that a party such as asserted infringer Dometic Corporation (“Dometic”) can introduce into an awning — a product whose very purpose is to keep water from soaking the people whom it is designed…