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· 7/10/1985

In Re Cordis Corporation

Citations

  • 769 F.2d 733
  • 226 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 784
  • 1985 U.S. App. LEXIS 15050

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that “if a rational and substantial legal argument can be made in support of the rule in question, the case is not appropriate for mandamus”
  • suggesting that defendant’s employees’ homes, which were used to store the defendant’s “literature, documents and products,” could constitute a “regular and established place of busi- ness”
  • refusing to find abuse of discretion in lower court’s finding of acts of infringement based on continuous solicitation coupled with technical consultations and demonstrations
  • finding venue proper in district where defendant’s employ- ees stored defendant’s “literature, documents and prod- ucts” in their in-district homes rather than in a separately leased or owned warehouse of the defendant
  • The “issue of infringement” is “a question to be determined at trial” and “is not reached on the merits in considering venue requirements.”
  • The “issue of infringement” is “a question to be determined at trial” and “is not reached on the merits in considering venue requirements.”

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Judges: Markey, Friedman, Rich

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