KIMBERLY-CLARK CORP. v. JOHNSON & JOHNSON

Appeal No. 83-1066.

745 F.2d 1437 (1984)

KIMBERLY-CLARK CORPORATION, Appellant, v. JOHNSON & JOHNSON and Personal Products Company, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

October 9, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Frederick Leydig, Chicago, Ill., argued for appellant. With him on brief were Phillip H. Mayer, Berton Scott Sheppard and Charles H. Mottier, Chicago, Ill.; Thomas M. Stanton and Howard Olevsky, Neenah, Wis., of counsel.

Thomas C. Morrison, New York City, New York, argued for appellees. With him on brief was Lynn P. Freedman, New York City.

Before RICH, Circuit Judge, SKELTON, Senior Circuit Judge, and KASHIWA, Circuit Judge.


RICH, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from the February 4, 1983, March 15, 1983 (219 USPQ 214), and April 5, 1983, 573 F.Supp. 1179 (219 USPQ 217), judgments of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, sitting without a jury, holding that Kimberly-Clark Corporation's Roeder patent No. 3,672,371 ('371) issued June 27, 1972, for "Sanitary Napkin with Improved Adhesive Fastening Means...

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