HERCULES INC. v. EXXON CORP.

Civ. A. No. 3439.

497 F.Supp. 661 (1980)

HERCULES INCORPORATED, Plaintiff, v. EXXON CORPORATION, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

July 29, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David F. Anderson of Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, Del., for plaintiff; Caspar C. Schneider, Jr., Stanley L. Amberg, William J. Hone, Richard P. Ferrara, and Deborah A. Brandstater of Davis, Hoxie, Faithfull & Hapgood, New York City, of counsel.

Arthur G. Connolly, Jr. of Connolly, Bove & Lodge, Wilmington, Del., for defendant; Thomas F. Reddy, Jr., Berj A. Terzian, Jonathan A. Marshall, and Ronald A. Bleeker of Pennie & Edmonds, New York City, Lee Chasan of Exxon Chemical Co., of counsel.


OPINION

CALEB M. WRIGHT, Senior District Judge.

In this action, Hercules Incorporated ("Hercules") charges Exxon Corporation ("Exxon")1 with infringing both literally and under the Doctrine of Equivalents, United States Patent 3,211,709 which covers a form of sulfur-vulcanizable ethylene propylene terpolymers ("EPT's") useful as synthetic rubbers.2 Hercules's interest in this patent arises by virtue...

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