ETHICON, INC. v. U.S. SURGICAL CORP.

No. 5:89CV00386 (RNC).

921 F.Supp. 901 (1995)

ETHICON, INC. and Inbae Yoon, M.D., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES SURGICAL CORPORATION, Defendant, and Young Jae Choi, Intervenor-Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Connecticut.

June 12, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marc J. Gottridge, Corbin, Silverman & Sanserverino, New York City, for Marc J. Gottridge.

Kaare Phillips, Grais & Phillips, New York City, pro se.

Richard S. Lipman, Schatz & Schatz, Ribicoff & Kotkin, Hartford, CT, Thomas W. Pippert, Richard H. Savage, David F. Dobbins, Jeffrey I.D. Lewis, Kim Sweet, John M. DiMatteo, Erik Haas, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, New York City, Eric Harris, Harman A. Grossman, Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ, Dion W. Moore, Elizabeth Jane McBride, Peter D. Clark, Williams, Cooney & Sheehy, Bridgeport, CT, for Ethicon, Inc., Inbae Yoon.

Paul F. Thomas, Jacob D. Zeldes, Frank J. Silvestri, Jr., Beverly Stauffer Knapp, Zeldes, Needle & Cooper, Bridgeport, CT, Theresa M. Gillis, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, New York City, Eric J. Lobenfeld, Chadbourne & Parke, New York City, Clark E. Walter, Valerie A. Cohen, J. Paul McGrath, Bradford J. Badke, Harvey Kurzweil, Dewey Ballantine, New York City, Sanford M. Litvack, Walt Disney Company, Burbank, CA, for United States Surgical Corp.


RULING ON PENDING MOTIONS

CHATIGNY, District Judge.

Plaintiffs Ethicon, Inc. (Ethicon) and Inbae Yoon, M.D. have brought this action against defendant United States Surgical Corporation (USSC) alleging infringement of United States Patent No. 4,535,773 (`773 patent). The patent was issued to Dr. Yoon in 1985 based on an application in which he stated that he was the sole inventor of all the claims in the application. Ethicon has rights to the patent...

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