JAPAN GAS LIGHTER ASSOCIATION v. RONSON CORP.

Civ. A. No. 721-65.

257 F.Supp. 219 (1966)

JAPAN GAS LIGHTER ASSOCIATION, Kanamaru Shoten, Ltd., and Japan Gas Lighter Corp., Plaintiffs, v. RONSON CORPORATION and LaNationale, S. A., Defendants.

United States District Court D. New Jersey.

July 15, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carpenter, Bennett & Morrissey, by Stanley Weiss, Newark, N. J., for plaintiffs; Stitt & Hemmendinger, Washington, D. C., by Noel Hemmendinger, Washington, D. C., Semmes & Semmes, Washington, D. C., by David H. Semmes, of counsel.

Shanley & Fisher, by David S. Cramp, Newark, N. J., for defendant Ronson; Pennie, Edmonds, Morton, Taylor & Adams, New York City, by Frank F. Scheck, New York City, of counsel.

Stryker, Tams & Dill, by Walter F. Waldau, Newark, N. J., for defendant LaNationale.


OPINION

COOLAHAN, District Judge:

I. These motions arise from an action brought by plainiffs for a declaratory judgment of patent invalidity and non-infringement. The plaintiffs are the Japan Gas Lighter Association [Association], a group of forty-one Japanese manufacturers formed to market lighters; Kanamaru Shoten Ltd., an individual member of the Association; and Japan Gas Lighter Corporation [Lighter Corp.] an American subsidiary of the Association established...

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