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SHAPIRO v. GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

Civ. No. Y-71-1329.

472 F.Supp. 636 (1979)

Nelson H. SHAPIRO et al. v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION et al.

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

May 29, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin J. Sykes, Baltimore, Md., and Robert H. Rines, Boston, Mass., for plaintiffs.

Paul V. Niemeyer and David F. Albright, Baltimore, Md., for defendants.

JOSEPH H. YOUNG, District Judge.

I. THE FACTS

Plaintiffs Board and Shapiro spend their spare time as inventors of automotive seat belt equipment. Plaintiff Board is a practicing psychiatrist, and Shapiro an engineer and a patent attorney. In the mid-1960s, the federal government required the installation of seat belts in all new cars sold in the U.S. market. Plaintiffs Board and Shapiro held patents relating to an automatic seat belt retractor, a...

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