· 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
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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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