Beghin-Say International Inc. v. Ole-Bendt Rasmussen

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• determining that the federal court did not have subject matter jurisdiction over the status of an assignment of two products whose patents were pending
• declining to award sanctions despite “a to- tal absence of merit” in the appellant’s arguments
• referring to the “differences between excessive advocacy ... and clear frivolity”
• subsidiary substituted for parent company as appellant where parent company assigned patents at issue to subsidiary
• substitution of subsidiary for parent permitted when patents at issue had been assigned to subsidiary
• “That determination [whether the parties had diversity of citizenship] must be made as of the filing date of a complaint, or of an amended complaint, and cannot be changed by action of a party thereafter.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).