NL CHEMICALS, INC. v. SOUTHERN CLAY PRODUCTS

Civ. A. No. 88-2620.

704 F.Supp. 299 (1989)

NL CHEMICALS, INC., Plaintiff, v. SOUTHERN CLAY PRODUCTS, INC. and E.C.C. America Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

January 27, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Peter Farkas, Thomas J. Morgan, Lyon & Lyon, Washington, D.C., Stefan J. Klauber, Klauber & Jackson, Hackensack, N.J., for plaintiff.

Steuart H. Thomsen, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Washington, D.C., C. Christopher Hagy, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Atlanta, Ga., for defendants.


ORDER

JOYCE HENS GREEN, District Judge.

A brief, though non-exhaustive, background illustrates the parties' positions in this action brought under 35 U.S.C. § 291 for judgment of invalidity of claims of adverse interfering patent.

Plaintiff NL Chemicals, Inc. ("NL") is the owner of U.S. Patent No. 4,695,402 ("402 Patent"), issued on September 27, 1988, on an invention entitled Organophilic Clay Gellants and Process for Preparation. Complaint...

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