RICHARD WOLF MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS CORP. v. DORY

No. 87 C 1254.

723 F.Supp. 37 (1989)

RICHARD WOLF MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS CORP., a Delaware corporation, and Richard Wolf GmbH, a corporation of the Federal Republic of Germany, Plaintiffs, v. Jacques DORY, an Alien Individual, and EDAP, S.A., an Alien Business Entity of the Nation of France, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

October 4, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Seymour Rothstein and Bradley J. Hulbert, Allegretti, Newitt & McAndrews, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

A. Sidney Katz and Suzanne Hines, Welsh & Katz, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

BRIAN BARNETT DUFF, District Judge.

This court has become the primary American setting for a world war between two inventors, Richard Wolf GmbH and Jacques Dory. Wolf is a West German Corporation which has an American subsidiary, Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corporation. Wolf claims to have invented a device known as an extracorporeal lithotriptor, a device which Wolf has patented overseas. The lithotriptor is a machine which uses...

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