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

Civ. A. No. 84-333 LON.

711 F.Supp. 759 (1989)

The PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. NABISCO BRANDS, INC., Keebler Company and Frito-Lay, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

April 4, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Richards, III, Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, Del. (Jerome G. Lee, Harry C. Marcus, John F. Sweeney, Christopher A. Hughes, of Morgan, Finnegan, Pine, Foley & Lee, New York City, Julius P. Filcik, Rose Ann Dabek, Richard C. Witte, of The Procter & Gamble Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, of counsel), for plaintiff.

Douglas E. Whitney, Mary Graham, of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, Del. (Edward W. Greason, William J. Ungvarsky, Paul H. Heller, Richard M. Rosati, Richard L. DeLucia, Wayne A. Jones, of Kenyon & Kenyon, New York City, of counsel), for defendant Nabisco Brands, Inc.

Howard M. Handelman, 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, Esquire of Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, Del. (Wayne M. Harding, Paul M. Janicke, Peter J. Shurn III, of Arnold, White & Durkee, Houston, Tex., Ronald R. Kranzow, Terrence D. Dreyer, Thomas P. Schur, of Frito-Lay, Inc., Dallas, Tex., of counsel), for defendant Frito-Lay, Inc.


OPINION

LONGOBARDI, District Judge.

I. NATURE AND STAGE OF THE PROCEEDINGS

The Plaintiff Procter and Gamble ("P & G") brought three separate actions against Defendant Nabisco Brands, Inc. ("Nabisco"), Defendant Keebler Company ("Keebler") and Defendant Frito-Lay, Inc. ("Frito-Lay") alleging infringement of U.S. Patent No. 4,455,333 (the "'333 Patent"), inducement of patent infringement and unfair competition. The complaint was filed on June...

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