REFAC INTERN. v. LOTUS DEVELOPMENT CORP.

No. 89 Civ. 5094 (SS).

887 F.Supp. 539 (1995)

REFAC INTERNATIONAL, LTD. and Forward Reference Systems, Ltd., Plaintiffs, v. LOTUS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

April 18, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. (Kenneth J. Kelly, Claudia M. Cohen, of counsel), Elias, Goodman & Shanks (Paul Goodman, of counsel), New York City, for plaintiffs.

Baker & Botts (Henry B. Gutman, Kerry L. Konrad, Jeffrey E. Ostrow, of counsel), New York City, for defendant.


FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AND ORDER

SOTOMAYOR, District Judge.

The quid pro quo for obtaining a patent, and thereby securing its seventeen-year exclusive right to make, sell, and use an invention that the constitutionally-authorized, government-granted monopoly provides, is that adequate disclosure of the invention be made in the application for the patent. See 35 U.S.C. § 112. The patent application must teach the world, or...

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