PACESETTER SYSTEMS, INC. v. MEDTRONIC, INC.

No. 81-5136.

678 F.2d 93 (1982)

PACESETTER SYSTEMS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MEDTRONIC, INC. and Med Rel Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided May 24, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan J. Wilcox, Mills & Wilcox, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

Alan G. Carlson, Merchant, Gould, Smith, Edell, Welter & Schmidt, Minneapolis, Minn., argued, for defendants-appellees; Raymond A. Bogucki, Fraser & Bogucki, Los Angeles, Cal., John D. Gould, Minneapolis, Minn., on brief.

Before WALLACE, HUG and ALARCON, Circuit Judges.


HUG, Circuit Judge:

The parties to this patent infringement dispute brought essentially identical actions in district courts in Florida and California to determine the validity of patents on the design of cardiac pacemakers. The California district court, concluding that the litigation filed first in the Florida court would fully resolve the dispute, declined to exercise jurisdiction over the second-filed action and dismissed it. The sole issue in this case is whether...

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