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WILLIAMS ELECTRONICS, INC. v. BALLY MFG. CORP.

No. 82 C 2167.

568 F.Supp. 1274 (1983)

WILLIAMS ELECTRONICS, INC., a Delaware corporation, Plaintiff, v. BALLY MANUFACTURING CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, Defendant.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

April 20, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin M. Goldenberg, William T. Rifkin, Thomas C. Elliott, McDougall, Hersh & Scott, Chicago, Ill., Arthur M. Handler, Manuel W. Gottlieb, Golenbock & Barell, New York City, for plaintiff.

Donald L. Welsh, A. Sidney Katz, John F. Flannery, Fitch, Even, Tabin, Flannery & Welsh, Rodney D. Joslin, Anton R. Valukas, Jenner & Block, Chicago, Ill., for defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

PRENTICE H. MARSHALL, District Judge.

In October of 1981 plaintiff Williams Electronics, Inc. ("Williams") introduced a pinball game called Hyperball into the arcade market. Hyperball combines many of the features of a traditional pinball game with those of a video game. In Hyperball, the player shoots rolling balls at lighted "lightning bolt" targets in order to prevent...

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