MILTON ROY CO. v. BAUSCH & LOMB INC.

Civ. A. No. 75-368.

418 F.Supp. 975 (1976)

MILTON ROY COMPANY and MilRoy-Automated, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. BAUSCH & LOMB INCORPORATED et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

August 9, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund D. Lyons, Morris, James, Hitchens & Williams, Wilmington, Del., for plaintiffs; John J. Mackiewicz and Albert W. Preston, Jr., Woodcock, Washburn, Kurtz & Mackiewicz, H. Francis DeLone and Harvey Bartle, III, Dechert, Price & Rhoads, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel.

Thomas S. Lodge, Connolly, Bove & Lodge, Wilmington, Del., for Bausch & Lomb Inc.; Ambrose Doskow and Joel W. Sternman, Rosenman, Colin, Freund, Lewis & Cohen, New York City, D. D. Allegretti and Edward W. Remus, Allegretti, Newitt, Witcoff & McAndrews, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

Rodney M. Layton, Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, Del., for Nat. Patent Development Corp., Flexible Contact Lens Corp., Flexible Contact Lens (Nevada), Inc. and Czechoslovak Academy of Science; C. Frederick Leydig, Paul L. Ahern, Leydig, Voit, Osann, Mayer & Holt, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., Chester C. Davis, David M. Disick and Marc J. Adelsohn, Davis & Cox, New York City, of counsel.


OPINION

CALEB M. WRIGHT, Senior District Judge.

This case concerns the validity and enforceability of certain patents relating to the manufacture of so-called "soft contact lenses" ("soft lenses").1 The patents at issue are owned by the Defendant Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, which has exclusively sublicensed them to the Defendant National Patent Development Corp., which in turn sublicensed them to its subsidiaries, Flexible...

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