Specialty Minerals, Inc. v. Pluess-Staufer AG

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• noting that the unclean hands doctrine only applies “where the misconduct alleged as the basis for the defense ‘has immediate and necessary relation to the equity that [plaintiff] seeks in respect of the matter in litigation.’”
• striking defendant's unclean hands affirmative defense where plaintiff alleged misconduct in defendant's acquisition and use of defendant's patent and the defense was based on plaintiff's misconduct with a different -plaintiff's own-patent
• granting motion to strike a defense that would require additional discovery
• alleged misconduct must be “directly related to [plaintiffs] use or acquisition of the right in suit”
• the 14 “misconduct that forms the basis for the unclean hands defense [must be] directly related 15 to plaintiff's use or acquisition of the right in suit.”
• “The unclean hands doctrine applies only where the misconduct alleged as the basis for the defense ‘has immediate and necessary relation to the equity that [plaintiff] seeks in respect of the matter in litigation.’”

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