DUPLAN CORP. v. DEERING MILLIKEN INC.

Nos. 78-1024 to 78-1027.

594 F.2d 979 (1979)

The DUPLAN CORPORATION, Burlington Industries, Inc., Dixie Yarns, Inc., Frank Ix & Sons Virginia Corporation, Hemmerich Industries, Inc., Jonathan Logan, Inc., Lawrence Texturing Corp., Leon-Ferenbach, Inc., (Division of Chromalloy-American Corp.), Madison Throwing Co., National Spinning Co., Inc., Reliable Silk Dyeing Co., Swarzenbach-Huber Co., (now by merger Indian Head, Inc., a Delaware Corp.), Spring-Tex, Inc., TexElastic Corporation, Texfi Industries, Inc., United Merchants & Manufacturers, Inc., Appellees, v. DEERING MILLIKEN INC., Deering Milliken Research Corporation, Moulinage et Retorderie De Chavanoz, Appellants, and Ateliers Roannais De Constructions Textiles, and ARCT, Inc., Defendants. The DUPLAN CORPORATION, Burlington Industries, Inc., Dixie Yarns, Inc., Frank Ix & Sons Virginia Corporation, Hemmerich Industries, Inc., Jonathan Logan, Inc., Lawrence Texturing Corp., Leon-Ferenbach, Inc., (Division of Chromalloy-American Corp.), Madison Throwing Co., National Spinning Co., Inc., Reliable Silk Dyeing Co., Swarzenbach-Huber Co., (now by merger Indian Head, Inc., a Delaware Corp.), Spring-Tex, Inc., TexElastic Corporation, Texfi Industries, Inc., United Merchants & Manufacturers, Inc., Appellants, v. DEERING MILLIKEN INC., Deering Milliken Research Corporation, Moulinage et Retorderie De Chavanoz, Ateliers Roannais De Constructions Textiles, and ARCT, Inc., Appellees. The DUPLAN CORPORATION, Burlington Industries, Inc., Dixie Yarns, Inc., Frank Ix & Sons Virginia Corporation, Hemmerich Industries, Inc., Jonathan Logan, Inc., Lawrence Texturing Corp., Leon-Ferenbach, Inc., (Division of Chromalloy-American Corp.), Madison Throwing Co., National Spinning Co., Inc., Reliable Silk Dyeing Co., Swarzenbach-Huber Co., (now by merger Indian Head, Inc., a Delaware Corp.), Spring-Tex Inc., TexElastic Corporation, Texfi Industries, Inc., United Merchants & Manufacturers, Inc., Appellants, v. DEERING MILLIKEN INC., Deering Milliken Research Corporation, Moulinage et Retorderie De Chavanoz, Ateliers Roannais De Constructions Textiles, and ARCT, Inc., Appellees. The DUPLAN CORPORATION, Burlington Industries, Inc., Dixie Yarns, Inc., Frank Ix & Sons Virginia Corporation, Hemmerich Industries, Inc., Jonathan Logan, Inc., Lawrence Texturing Corp., Leon-Ferenbach, Inc., (Division of Chromalloy-American Corp.), Madison Throwing Co., National Spinning Co., Inc., Reliable Silk Dyeing Co., Swarzenbach-Huber Co., (now by merger Indian Head, Inc., a Delaware Corp.), Spring-Tex, Inc., TexElastic Corporation, Texfi Industries, Inc., United Merchants & Manufacturers, Inc., Appellees, v. DEERING MILLIKEN INC., Deering Milliken Research Corporation, Moulinage et Retorderie De Chavanoz, Appellants, and Ateliers Roannais De Constructions Textiles, and ARCT, Inc., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 26, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay H. Topkis and Jay Greenfield, New York City (Simon H. Rifkind, Cameron Clark, Howard S. Veisz, Victoria G. Traube, Andrew Kull, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Granville M. Pine, Harry C. Marcus, Kurt E. Richter, Morgan, Finnegan, Pine, Foley & Lee, New York City, Butler, Means, Evins & Browne, Spartanburg, S. C., on brief), for appellants DMRC, Chavanoz and DMI.

David L. Foster, New York City (Michael C. Lambert, Richard A. Van Dusen, James J. Calder, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, New York City, on brief), for appellees-cross appellants The Duplan Corp. and Lawrence Texturing Corp., McNeill Smith, Greensboro, N. C. (Michael R. Abel, Smith, Moore, Smith, Schell & Hunter, and David Rabin, Greensboro, N. C., on brief), for appellees-cross appellants Texfi Industries, Inc., Dixie Yarns, Inc., Reliable Silk Dyeing Co., Inc., and Spring-Tex, Inc.

William K. West, Jr., Washington, D. C. (John W. Malley, W. Warren Taltavull, Cushman, Darby & Cushman, Washington, D. C., O. G. Calhoun, Jr., and Haynsworth, Perry, Bryant, Marion & Johnstone, Greenville, S. C., on brief), for appellees-cross appellants Burlington Industries, Inc., Madison Throwing Co., Nat. Spinning Co. and Leon-Ferenbach, Inc. [Division of Chromalloy-American Corp.].

Paul B. Bell, Charlotte, N. C. (Charles B. Park, III, John J. Barnhardt, III, Bell, Seltzer, Park & Gibson, Fletcher C. Mann and Leatherwood, Walker, Todd & Mann, Greenville, S. C., on brief), for appellees-cross appellants The Duplan Corp., Frank Ix & Sons Virginia Corp., Jonathan Logan, Inc., Lawrence Texturing Corp., Schwarzenbach-Huber Co., United Merchants & Mfrs., Inc.

David Rabin, New York City, on brief, for appellees-cross appellants TexElastic Corp. and Hemmerich Industries, Inc.

James N. Buckner, New York City (Granville M. Brumbaugh, Granville M. Brumbaugh, Jr., Brumbaugh, Graves, Donohue & Raymond, New York City, on brief), for appellees ARCT-France.

Arthur O. Cooke, A. Wayland Cooke, Cooke & Cooke, Greensboro, N. C., on brief, for appellee ARCT, Inc.

Thomas T. Moore, Robinson, McFadden, Moore & Pope, Columbia, S. C., on brief, for appellee ARCT, Inc.

Before BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and HALL and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

In this consolidated patent-antitrust litigation involving the textile industry, defendants, Moulinage et Retorderie de Chavanoz (Chavanoz), Deering Milliken Research Corporation (DMRC) and Deering Milliken, Inc. (DMI) appeal the judgment of the district court against them for antitrust violations arising from a continuing horizontal conspiracy. Chavanoz and DMRC also appeal various holdings regarding the validity, infringement and misuse of certain patents...

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