IMAX CORP. v. CINEMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

No. 96-16094.

152 F.3d 1161 (1998)

IMAX CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CINEMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.; Neil Johnson, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided August 19, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Warren, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles, California; Matthew D. Powers, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Menlo Park, California, for plaintiff-appellant.

William Sloan Coats, Howrey & Simon, Menlo Park, California, for defendants-appellees.

Before: SNEED, KOZINSKI, and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.


SNEED, Circuit Judge:

Capitalism requires that both property rights and vigorous competition, each within the limits fixed by law, coexist. The tension between these two imperatives generates many disputes. This case is concerned with one such dispute.

In this case, Imax Corporation ("Imax") seeks to protect its interests in large format motion picture projectors, generally known as "rolling loop" projectors, with respect to which Imax acquired several patents...

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