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WILLIAMS v. GENERAL SURGICAL INNOVATIONS, INC.

Civ.A. No. 1:00CV037.

178 F.Supp.2d 698 (2002)

Randy WILLIAMS, Chapter 7 Trustee for the Estate of Lana Davis Johnson, and Jeffrey W. Johnson, Plaintiffs-Counterdefendants, v. GENERAL SURGICAL INNOVATIONS, INC., Tyco International, Ltd., and Origin Medisystems, Inc., Defendants-counterclaimants.

United States District Court, E.D. Texas, Beaumont Division.

January 14, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Thad Heartfield, Jr., Heartfield & McGinnis, Beaumont, TX, Neal Elton Dry, Dry & Tassin, Arnold Anderson Vickery, Houston, TX, for Randy Williams and Jeffrey W. Johnson.

Charley L. Smith, Bellville, TX, for Lana Davis Johnson.

Paul Withington Gertz, Germer & Gertz, Beaumont, TX, John C. Kappos, Hope E. Melville, Polaphat Veranvanich, James W. Geriak, Lyon & Lyon, Irvine, CA, for General Surgical Innovations, and Tyco International, Inc.

Floyd R. Nation, Hemant Hari Kewalramani, Arnold, White & Durkee, Houston, TX, Dewey J. Gonsoulin, Mehaffy & Weber, Beaumont, TX, Doak C. Procter, IV, Ronald G. Bliss, Houston, TX, for Origin Medsystems, Inc.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SCHELL, District Judge.

I. Introduction

Plaintiff Jeffrey Johnson and his father Dr. Gerald Johnson ("inventors") are the co-inventors of U.S. Patent No. 5,655,545 ("the '545 patent"). The '545 patent claims a method of surgical dissection of body tissue. Dr. Gerald Johnson previously assigned his rights in the '545 patent to his late wife Lana Davis Johnson. Plaintiff Randy Williams is the bankruptcy trustee...

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