TRIAX CO. v. TRW, INC.

No. 82-3575.

724 F.2d 1224 (1984)

The TRIAX COMPANY, Plaintiff, Jerome H. Lemelson, Proposed Plaintiff-Intervenor, Appellant, v. TRW, INC. and Conco, Inc., Defendants-Appellees, Hartman Metal Fabricators, Inc., Defendant-Intervenor-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided January 16, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. McCoy, Jr., Pearne, Gordon, Sessions, McCoy & Granger, Stephen A. Hill (argued), Cleveland, Ohio, for appellant.

Charles B. Lyon, Maky, Renner, Otto & Boissell, Cleveland, Ohio, Stanley C. Dalton, Wegner, Stellman, McCord, Wiles & Wood, Ronald L. Wanke (argued), Chicago, Ill., Hal D. Cooper, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Cleveland, Ohio, for appellees.

Philip K. Fitzsimmons (argued), Shlesinger, Fitzsimmons & Sclesinger, Rochester, N.Y., for defendant-intervenor.

Richard J. Egan, Baldwin, Egan, Walling & Fetzer, Cleveland, Ohio, for plaintiff Triax Co.

Before CONTIE, Circuit Judge, and PHILLIPS and CELEBREZZE, Senior Circuit Judges.


PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves the asserted right of Appellant, Jerome H. Lemelson, the inventor and original owner of the two patents-in-suit, to intervene as plaintiff in a patent infringement action. The district court entered summary judgment holding the two patents to be invalid. The purpose of Lemelson's attempted intervention was to prosecute an appeal after the original plaintiff, the losing party, had decided not to appeal.

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