VETCO OFFSHORE INDUSTRIES, INC. v. RUCKER CO.

No. C-75-0070-WWS.

448 F.Supp. 1203 (1978)

VETCO OFFSHORE INDUSTRIES, INC., Plaintiff and Counterdefendant, Vetco Offshore, Inc., Plaintiff in Intervention and Counterdefendant, v. The RUCKER COMPANY, Defendant and Counterplaintiff.

United States District Court, N. D. California.

April 10, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Subkow, Bernard Kriegel, Subkow & Kriegel, Lewis Anten, Paul L. Gardner, Gardner & Anten, Beverly Hills, Cal., Dirks B. Foster, Ronald Laurie, Townsend & Townsend, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff and counterdefendant and plaintiff in intervention and counterdefendant.

Carl Hoppe, James F. Mitchell, Eckhoff, Hoppe, Slick, Mitchell & Anderson, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant and counter-plaintiff.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER GRANTING PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT

WILLIAM W SCHWARZER, District Judge.

This is an action by Vetco Offshore Industries ("Vetco") charging defendant The Rucker Company ("Rucker") with infringement of the United States Patents Nos. 3,714,995 and Re. (reissue patent) 28,281 covering a drill string motion compensator useful in offshore drilling. Vetco Offshore, Inc., Vetco's exclusive licensee of the patents in suit, filed a complaint in...

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