HANDGARDS, INC. v. JOHNSON & JOHNSON

No. 49451 WHO.

413 F.Supp. 926 (1976)

HANDGARDS, INC., a corporation, Plaintiff, v. JOHNSON & JOHNSON, a corporation, and Ethicon, Inc., a corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. California.

January 7, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maxwell M. Blecher, Blecher, Collins & Hoecker, Joel R. Bennett, Nancy Bennett, Kendrick, Netter, Orr & Bennett, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff.

David F. Dobbins, Rogers & Wells, George S. Frazza, New York City, Robert M. Dunne, Dunne, Phelps & Mills, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants.


OPINION

ORRICK, District Judge.

In this antitrust action, plaintiff contends that defendants instituted a series of patent infringement suits against it in bad faith as part of a conspiracy to restrain trade and monopolize the disposable plastic glove industry. The gravamen of plaintiff's complaint is that defendants accumulated a number of patents in the disposable plastic glove field, in particular the Gerard and Orisini patents, knowing that these patents...

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