MEDTRONIC, INC. v. INTERMEDICS, INC.

No. 83-1826.

725 F.2d 440 (1984)

MEDTRONIC, INC., a Minnesota Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. INTERMEDICS, INC., a Texas Corporation, and Intermedics Illinois, Inc., a Texas Corporation, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 12, 1984.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied February 10, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Verscaj, Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

Martha A. Mills, Cotton, Watt, Jones, King & Bowlus, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before POSNER, COFFEY and FLAUM, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied February 10, 1984.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal from a district judge's refusal to stay a lawsuit requires us to consider the recurrent and difficult question of the appealability of orders granting or denying stays. The plaintiff, Medtronic, manufactures pacemakers in competition with the defendants, two affiliated corporations that we shall refer to jointly as Intermedics. Medtronic complains in this diversity...

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