SWEETHEART PLASTICS, INC. v. ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS, INC.

Nos. 67 C 888, 66 C 1609.

286 F.Supp. 62 (1968)

SWEETHEART PLASTICS, INC., Maryland Cup Corporation, and Sweetheart Cup Corporation, Plaintiffs, v. ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS, INC., Defendant. ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS, INC., Plaintiff, v. MARYLAND CUP CORPORATION and Sweetheart Cup Corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Illinois, E. D.

March 20, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Hume and Granger Cook, Jr., Hume, Clement, Hume & Lee, Richard R. Trexler, Olson, Trexler, Wolters & Bushnell, Chicago, Ill., for Illinois Tool Works, Inc.

Vincent J. Carney, Sturman, Sang & Carney, Chicago, Ill., George L. Greenfield and Charles Hieken, Wolf, Greenfield & Hieken, Boston, Mass., for Sweetheart Plastics, Inc., Maryland Cup Corporation, and Sweetheart Cup Corporation.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

DECKER, District Judge.

These are two cases involving the validity of Illinois Tool Works' patents Numbers 3,091,360 and 3,139,312 and the question of whether Sweetheart Cup Corporation, Maryland Cup Corporation, and Sweetheart Plastics, Inc., are infringers of these patents. Presently pending for decisions are motions related to the rather unusual procedural situation which has brought these two related cases to this court.

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