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· 11/25/1987

Hottel Corp. v. Seaman Corp.

Citations

  • 833 F.2d 1570
  • 4 U.S.P.Q. 2d (BNA) 1939
  • 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 712

How courts have described this case

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  • listing cases and concluding, “In the cases which have applied intentionally misleading silence in the patent infringement context, a patentee threatened immediate or vigorous enforcement of its patent right but then did nothing for a long time.”
  • no estoppel where patentee informed defendant that it would await a ruling in another case before pursuing litigation

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Judges: Newman, Baldwin, Archer

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