KIDDE, INC. v. E.F. BAVIS & ASSOC.

No. 83-2568.

735 F.2d 1085 (1984)

KIDDE, INC., by its LEFEBURE DIVISION, Appellant, v. E.F. BAVIS & ASSOCIATES, INC., and Edward F. Bavis, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 6, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Simmons, Perrine, Albright & Ellwood, Haven E. Simmons, David A. Hacker, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for appellant.

Albert E. Strasser, David E. Schmit, Frost & Jacobs, Cincinnati, Ohio, for appellees.

Before ROSS, ARNOLD and FAGG, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Kidde, Inc., and E.F. Bavis & Associates, Inc., both manufacture automatic equipment used by banks at drive-in windows. Bavis, which holds a patent on its equipment, placed in a national banking journal an advertisement that, in effect, threatened suit for contributory infringement against any bank buying a machine that might infringe on Bavis's patent. Kidde then brought this suit for declaratory and injunctive relief in the United States District...

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