Bp Chemicals Limited v. Union Carbide Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “[w]hile [plaintiff] may not have the present ability to market [its product], it had embarked upon a protracted and costly process of obtaining regulatory approval”
• noting that a court need not take “unwarranted deductions of fact” as true on a 6 motion to dismiss
• confirming the relevance of \a patentee's refusal to give assurances that it will not enforce its patent\
• “Although it is the situation at the time suit was filed that establishes the existence vel non of an actual controversy, subsequent events can reinforce the correctness of the conclusion.”
• “Although it is the situation at the time suit was filed that establishes the existence vel non of an actual controversy, subsequent events can rein- force the correctness of the conclusion.” (citation omitted)
• \it is the objective words and actions of the patentee that are controlling\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).