Arrowhead Industrial Water, Inc. v. Ecolochem, Inc.

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• recognizing that an actual controversy may be found with no communication from patent holder to declaratory judgment plaintiff
• holding that-jurisdiction depends on “the facts existing when the complaint is filed”
• noting that the tension between the Declaratory Judgment Act and the general prohibition against advisory opinions gives rise to “competing considerations ... of constitutional dimensions.”
• stating that the two-part test is a \test often useful in evaluating complaints for declaratory judgments in patent cases\
• stating that the two-part test is a “test often useful in evaluating complaints for declaratory judgments in patent cases”
• noting that “defendant’s conduct has obviously created a most reasonable and compelled apprehension that continuing to sell its process could subject [the declaratory plaintiff] to liability for substantial damages”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).