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

No. 5:89CV00386 (RNC).

937 F.Supp. 1015 (1996)

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.

September 9, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kaare Phillips, Grais & Phillips, New York City, Special Master.

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 plaintiff Ethicon, Inc.

Paul F. Thomas, Jacob D. Zeldes, Frank J. Silvestri, Jr., 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, The Walt Disney Company, Burbank, CA, Beverly Stauffer Knapp, Westport, CT, for defendant U.S. Surgical Corp.

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, Patrick E. Gonya, Jr., Fowler, White, Burnett, Hurley, Banick & Strickroot, Miami, FL, for plaintiff Inbae Yoon.


RULING ON DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO CORRECT INVENTORSHIP

CHATIGNY, District Judge.

This is a patent infringement case brought by Inbae Yoon, M.D., the sole inventor named in the patent, and his exclusive licensee, Ethicon, Inc., against defendant United States Surgical Corporation. The case is before me on a motion by U.S. Surgical and intervenor-defendant Young Jae Choi to correct the patent to add Choi as a coinventor pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 256...

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