JACK WINTER, INC. v. KORATRON COMPANY, INC.

Civ. No. 49392.

375 F.Supp. 1 (1974)

JACK WINTER, INC., a corporation, Plaintiff, v. KORATRON COMPANY, INC., a corporation, Counterclaimant, v. JACK WINTER, INC., a corporation, Counterclaim Defendant.

United States District Court, N. D. California.

March 6, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin E. Klitsner, Timothy C. Frautschi, Foley & Lardner, Milwaukee, Wis., Carl Hoppe, Eckhoff, Hoppe, Slick, Mitchell & Anderson, San Francisco, Cal., for Jack Winter, Inc.

D. Carl Richards, V. Bryan Medlock, Richards, Harris & Hubbard, Dallas, Tex., for The Armory Garment Co. and Haggar Co.

David Rabin, Greensboro, N. C., for Blue Bell, Inc. and W. Koury Co., Inc.

Dayton R. Stemple, Jr., Browne, Beveridge & DeGrandi, Washington, D. C., for Salant & Salant, Inc. and Standard Romper Co., Inc.

Thomas V. Heyman, Albert Robin, Watson, Leavenworth, Kelton & Taggart, New York City, Harold C. Nachtrieb, Anthony G. Wilson, Miller, Groezinger, Pettit, Evers & Martin, San Francisco, Cal., for Henry I. Siegel Co., Inc.

Charles A. Legge, Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon, San Francisco, Cal., Irving Ostrow, Silverman & Kalnich, New York City, for Metro Pants Co., Inc.

Glen E. Keller, Jr., Phelps, Hall & Keller, Denver, Colo., Thomas V. Heyman, Albert Robin, Maxim H. Waldbaum, Watson, Leavenworth, Kelton & Taggart, New York City, for Bayly Corp.

William C. Clay, Jr., Clay & Marye, Mt. Sterling, Ky., Jack Corinblit, Los Angeles, Cal., for Cowden Manufacturing Co.

Jay Topkis, Bernard Ouziel, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Robert D. Spille, Curtis, Morris & Safford, New York City, for Deering Milliken, Inc.

John Izard, King & Spalding, Charles M. Kidd, Weltner, Kidd & Crumbley, Atlanta, Ga., for Oxford Industries, Inc. and Wright Manufacturing Co.

James M. Naylor, Naylor & Neal, San Francisco, Cal., Lawrence B. Biebel, Marechal, Biebel, French & Bugg, Dayton, Ohio, for Lion Uniform, Inc.

M. Laurence Popofsky, Stephen V. Bomse, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, San Francisco, Cal., for Defiance Manufacturing Co., Inc.

M. Laurence Popofsky, Stephen V. Bomse, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, Willard L. Ellis, Ellis & Levy, Paul D. Flehr, Sherman O. Parrett, Flehr, Hohbach, Test, Albritton & Herbert, John P. Sutton, Limbach, Limbach & Sutton, San Francisco, Cal., for Levi Strauss & Co.

Hunton, Williams, Gay & Gibson, Lewis T. Booker, Richmond, Va., Morgan, Finnegan, Durham & Pine, John C. Vassil, New York City, for Dan River Mills, Inc. third-party defendant.

Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, Moses Lasky, Robert S. Dagget, San Francisco, Cal., Lyon & Lyon, James W. Geriak, Los Angeles, Cal., for Koratron Co., Inc. and Koracorp Industries, Inc., defendant and counterclaimant.


MEMORANDUM OF OPINION

RENFREW, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

These seventeen consolidated1 actions were tried to the Court in a lengthy and comprehensive trial.2 All of the cases involve U.S. Patent No. 2,974,432 (the "'432 patent") issued March 14, 1961, to Koret of California ("Koret"), now known as Koracorp Industries, Inc. ("Koracorp"), as assignee, and thereafter assigned to Koratron...

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