ORDER T.S. ELLIS, III, District Judge. The matter is before the Court on (i) defendants' motion (Docket No. 6) to dismiss, or in the alternative, to dismiss parties and sever claims; and (ii) plaintiffs' motion (Docket No. 10) for partial summary judgment. For the reasons that follow, defendants' motion, now appropriately treated as a motion for summary judgment, 1 or in the alternative, to dismiss parties and sever claims, is denied with respect to Count I of plaintiffs' second amended...
MEMORANDUM OPINION LEONIE M. BRINKEMA, District Judge. This civil action arises from an interference proceeding between Rolls-Royce plc ("Rolls-Royce") and United Technologies Corporation ("UTC") involving their patents covering the designs of jet engine fan blades. On December 31, 2003, the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences ("the Board") of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) declared Patent Interference No. 105,195 between Rolls-Royce's U.S. Patent No. 6,071,077...
