ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC. v. SOLO CUP CO.

No. 69 C 480.

317 F.Supp. 1169 (1970)

ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC., Plaintiff, v. SOLO CUP CO., Inc., Defendant.

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

June 24, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Hume and Granger Cook, Jr., Hume, Clement, Hume & Lee, Richard R. Trexler, Olson, Trexler, Wolters & Bushnell, and Robert W. Beart, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

James J. Hamill, Anderson, Luedeka, Fitch, Even & Tabin, Chicago, Ill., for defendant.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

DECKER, District Judge.

Plaintiff Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW) has brought suit against defendant Solo Cup Company (Solo) for infringement of two of its patents directed to nestable cups, United States Patent Numbers 3,139,213 and 3,091,360. The patented devices, developed by Bryant Edwards for ITW, both describe thin-walled plastic nestable containers having side-wall "Z" shaped stacking facilities.1 The...

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