UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH v. TOWNSEND

No. 07-6062.

542 F.3d 513 (2008)

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. David TOWNSEND; Ronald Nutt; CTI Molecular Imaging, Inc.; CTI Pet Systems, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: September 9, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: David G. Oberdick, Meyer, Unkovic & Scott, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for Appellant. Daniel F. Diffley, Alston & Bird, Atlanta, Georgia, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: David G. Oberdick, Andrew L. Noble, Stacey M. Noble, Meyer, Unkovic & Scott, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andrew R. Tillman, Paine, Tarwater, Bickers & Tillman, Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellant. Daniel F. Diffley, Samuel R. Rutherford, Randall L. Allen, Alston & Bird, Atlanta, Georgia, J. Chadwick Hatmaker, Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter, Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellees.

Before: BOGGS, Chief Judge; RYAN and COLE, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

COLE, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-Appellant University of Pittsburgh ("University") brought suit against Defendants-Appellees David W. Townsend, Ronald Nutt, CTI Molecular Imaging, Inc. ("CTI"), and CTI PET Systems, Inc. ("CPS") (collectively, "Defendants"), claiming that Defendants misappropriated the University's rights and interests in a type of medical-scanning technology that the University alleges was collaboratively invented at its campus over...

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