PROCTER & GAMBLE CO. v. NABISCO BRANDS, INC.

Civ. A. Nos. 84-333 LON to 84-335 LON.

604 F.Supp. 1485 (1985)

The PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. NABISCO BRANDS, INC., Defendant. The PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. KEEBLER COMPANY, Defendant. The PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. FRITO-LAY, INC., Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

March 20, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Richards, III, E. Norman Veasey, Jane R. Roth, of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, Del., Jerome G. Lee, Harry C. Marcus, John F. Sweeney, of Morgan, Finnegan, Pine, Foley & Lee, New York City, Julius P. Filcik, Rose Ann Dabek, Richard C. Witte, of The Procter & Gamble Co., Cincinnatti, Ohio, for plaintiff.

Douglas E. Whitney, of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, Del., Paul H. Heller, of Kenyon & Kenyon, New York City, for defendant, Nabisco Brands, Inc.

Howard M. Handelman, Jeffrey M. Weiner, of Bayard, Handelman & Murdoch, Wilmington, Del., Daniel M. Riess, David Lesht, of Lockwood, Alex, FitzGibbon & Cummings, Chicago, Ill., Craig S. Stevens, Walter S. Maker, of Keebler Co., Elmhurst, Ill., for defendant, Keebler Co.

James F. Burnett, of Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, Del., Wayne M. Harding, Paul M. Janicke, Peter J. Shurn, III, Thomas A. Miller, of Arnold, White & Durkee, Houston, Tex., Steven R. May, Ronald R. Kranzow, Terry D. Dreyer, of Frito-Lay, Inc., Dallas, Tex., for defendant, Frito-Lay, Inc.


OPINION

LONGOBARDI, District Judge.

The Plaintiff, The Procter & Gamble Company ("P & G"), brought these actions alleging patent infringement, inducement of patent infringement and unfair competition.1 The patent in question, Patent No. 4,455,333, was issued to P & G on June 19, 1984, for an invention entitled "Doughs and Cookies Providing Storage — Stable Texture Variability." The patent covers a method of...

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