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TELECTRONICS PACING SYSTEMS, INC. v. GUIDANT CORP.

Nos. 97-1785, 97-2016.

143 F.3d 428 (1998)

TELECTRONICS PACING SYSTEMS, INC.; Telectronics Holding, Ltd.; Telectronics Pty., Ltd.; Medical Telectronics Holding and Finance Co., (BV); Telectronics, NV; TPLC, Inc.; Telectronics, SA; Pacesetter, Inc., Appellants/Cross-Appellees, v. GUIDANT CORPORATION; Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.; Guidant Sales Corp.; Eli Lilly and Co., Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided May 4, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George F. McGunnigle, Minneapolis, MN, argued (Michael A.G. Korengold, Minneapolis, MN, on the brief), for Appellants.

Robert K. Stanley, Indianapolis, IN, argued (John R. Schaibley, III, Indianapolis, IN, Winthrop A. Rockwell and Eric E. Jorstad, Minneapolis, MN, on the brief), for Appellees

Before FAGG, JOHN R. GIBSON, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

MURPHY, Circuit Judge.

This case involves an attempted transfer of rights under a patent licensing agreement. It was brought by certain companies involved in designing, manufacturing, and distributing cardiac stimulation devices (collectively the Telectronics Group and Pacesetter) against several competitors in the medical device business (collectively the Lilly Group) who had filed a state declaratory judgment action seeking a declaration that the attempted transfer...

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