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FREEMAN v. MINNESOTA MIN. AND MFG. CO.

Civ. A. No. 84-577-CMW.

693 F.Supp. 134 (1988)

Dr. Jerre M. FREEMAN, Plaintiff, v. MINNESOTA MINING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

August 29, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey B. Bove, and Collins J. Seitz, Jr., of Connolly, Bove, Lodge & Hutz, Wilmington, Del. (Bradford E. Kile, of Baker & McKenzie, Washington, D.C., and James E. Cockfield, of Lahive & Cockfield, Boston, Mass., of counsel), for plaintiff.

Charles S. Crompton, Jr., and David B. Brown, of Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, Del. (Walter N. Kirn, Patent Counsel for 3M in St. Paul, Minn., and John Gold, of Merchant, Gould, Smith, Edell, Welter & Schmidt, Minneapolis, Minn., for defendant.

OPINION

CALEB M. WRIGHT, Senior District Judge.

This patent infringement suit was brought by Dr. Jerre Minor Freeman against the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company ("3M") on October 5, 1984. Freeman asserts that Claims 1, 4, 10-11, and 21-22 of United States Reissue Patent No. 31,640 ("`640 patent" or "reissue patent"), entitled "Buoyancy Intraocular Lens Device," are valid and that they were willfully infringed by 3M. Freeman also brought suit against...

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