COLECO INDUSTRIES, INC. v. MENGO INDUSTRIES, INC.

No. 81-C-454.

525 F.Supp. 823 (1981)

COLECO INDUSTRIES, INC., Stephen D. Gurian and Morton M. Bernstein, Plaintiffs, v. MENGO INDUSTRIES, INC., Defendant.

United States District Court, E. D. Wisconsin.

November 3, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glenn O. Starke, Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, Milwaukee, Wis., and Peter L. Costas, Hartford, Conn., for plaintiffs.

Arnstein, Gluck & Lehr, Chicago, Ill., and Borgelt, Powell, Peterson & Frauen by Kurt H. Frauen, Milwaukee, Wis., for defendant.


DECISION and ORDER

MYRON L. GORDON, District Judge.

The plaintiffs' action seeks to enforce a patent allegedly infringed by the defendant. The defendant has moved for summary judgment contending that the plaintiffs are barred by laches and estoppel.

It is undisputed that in April 1972 Coleco submitted a letter to the defendant charging that Mengo's product infringed Coleco's patent. In response to that communication, Mengo informed Coleco that it...

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