BAUSCH & LOMB, INC. v. BARNES-HIND/HYDROCURVE, INC.

Appeal No. 85-2578.

796 F.2d 443 (1986)

BAUSCH & LOMB, INC., Appellant, v. BARNES-HIND/HYDROCURVE, INC., and Barnes-Hind International, Inc., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

July 14, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurence H. Pretty, Pretty, Schroeder, Brueggemann & Clark, Los Angeles, Cal., argued for appellant. With him on brief was Craig S. Summers. Bernard D. Bogdin and Howard S. Robbins, Bausch & Lomb, Inc., Rochester, N.Y., were also on brief.

John M. Calimafde, Hopgood, Calimafde, Kalil, Blaustein & Judlowe, New York City, argued for appellees. With him on brief were Eugene J. Kalil and Dennis J. Mondolino. Gilbert W. Rudman, Revlon Inc., Tuckahoe, N.Y., of counsel.

Before MARKEY, Chief Judge, FRIEDMAN, Circuit Judge, and NICHOLS, Senior Circuit Judge.


NICHOLS, Senior Circuit Judge.

Appellant Bausch & Lomb, Inc. filed suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that appellee Barnes-Hind/Hydrocurve, Inc. and Barnes-Hind International, Inc. (hereinafter Barnes-Hind) infringed patent No. 4,194,814 ('814 patent) in the manufacture and sale of its laser-marked contact lens. Barnes-Hind denied infringement and counterclaimed that the '814 patent was invalid, void, and...

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