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· 10/3/1980

Billy K. Watkins v. Northwestern Ohio Tractor Pullers Association, Inc.

Citations

  • 630 F.2d 1155
  • 208 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 545
  • 1980 U.S. App. LEXIS 13422

How courts have described this case

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  • summary judgment was improper where plaintiff had not had an opportunity to rebut the presumption of prejudice
  • plaintiff held to have knowledge for purposes of laches on the date it sent the letter protesting intended infringing use
  • “the patentee must give the infringer, within six years of learning about the infringement, notice of other pending litigation which delays enforcement of the patent against the alleged infringer and of an intent to sue when other litigation is concluded”

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Judges: Lively, Brown, Kennedy

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