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COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO. v. W.L. GORE & ASSOCIATES

Civil Action No. 95-2101(JCL).

919 F.Supp. 767 (1996)

COLGATE PALMOLIVE COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. W.L. GORE & ASSOCIATES, INC., Defendant.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

March 27, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph J. De Palma, Goldstein, Till & Lite, Newark, NJ, for Plaintiff.

Richard D. Catenacci, Connell, Foley & Geiser, Roseland, NJ, David H. Pfeffer, Stephen R. Smith, Morgan & Finnegan, New York City, for Defendant.

OPINION

LIFLAND, District Judge.

W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. ("Gore") moves for partial summary judgment of noninfringement of Colgate Palmolive Company's ("Colgate's") '488 patent, contending that its beeswax-coated Glide dental floss does not literally infringe the '488 patent and invoking the doctrine of prosecution history estoppel (also known as "file wrapper estoppel") to parry Colgate's assertion of infringement by the doctrine of equivalents...

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