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· 6/9/1969

Canadian Filters (Harwich) Limited v. Lear-Siegler, Inc.

Citations

  • 412 F.2d 577
  • 162 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 65
  • 1969 U.S. App. LEXIS 12025

How courts have described this case

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

  • vacating injunction of Canadian patent proceedings and find- ing that none of the exceptions to comity that might justify a foreign anti-suit injunction applied “where the subject matter of the foreign suit is a separate, independent foreign patent right”
  • policy against federal court injunctive interfer ence with state courts should apply, a forti-ori, as to foreign courts
  • policy against federal court injunctive interference with state courts should apply, a fortiori, as to foreign courts
  • “The Congressional policy upon which 28 U.S.C. § 2283 is based should, a fortiori, be reflected by a self-imposed reluctance to interfere with courts of foreign countries.”

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Judges: Aldrich, McEntee, Coffin

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