AEROJET-GENERAL CORP. v. MACHINE TOOL WORKS

Robert A. Schroeder, Pretty, Schroeder, Brueggeman Clark, Los Angeles, Cal., submitted, for plaintiff-appellant. With him on the brief, was Edward G. Poplawski. Jay R. Ziegler, Buchalter, Nemer, Fields Younger, Los Angeles, Cal., submitted, for defendant-appellee. Andrew P. Vance, Thomas D. Rosenwein, William T. Bullinger, J. Gary McDavid and George E. Hutchinson, The Federal Bar Ass'n, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, amicus curiae, for The Federal Circuit Bar Ass'n. Joseph R. Re, Knobbe, Martens, Olson Bear, of Newport Beach, California, was on the brief, amicus curiae, for American Intellectual Property Law Ass'n. Charles A. Wendel, Lyon Lyon, and Steven E. Lipman, Fish Richardson, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, amicus curiae, for Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law Section, The District of Columbia Bar. Joseph R. Magnone, Eric H. Weisblatt and Teresa Stanek Rea, Burns, Doane, Swecker Mathis, Alexandria, Va., were on the brief, amicus curiae, for Bar Ass'n of the District of Columbia, Patent, Trademark Copyright Section.