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· 5/12/1989

McV Inc. v. King-Seeley Thermos Company

Citations

  • 870 F.2d 1568
  • 1989 WL 26526

How courts have described this case

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

  • “[A] cause of action is created by section 256 which explicitly authorizes judicial resolution of co-inventorship contests over issued patents.”
  • “{A suit . . characterized as] a declaratory judgment for the determination of inventorship and co-inventorship . . . is not a declaratory judgment action, and principles of jurisdiction applicable to declaratory suits are not implicated.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
  • four-year delay triggered equitable estoppel in the patent context

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Judges: Friedman, Mayer, Nichols

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