Zip Dee, Inc. v. Dometic Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
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Applies 35 U.S.C. § 102
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“This long and contentious litigation between Zip Dee, Inc. (“Zip Dee”) and The Dometic Corporation (“Dometic”) has continued to pose so many and varied issues as to assume almost mythic proportions. Unfortunately the myth most often called to mind, as this Court has been called upon to resolve the parties’ numerous disputes, has been the fifth of the Labors of Hercules- — the cleansing of the Augean Stables. Or perhaps, given the manner in which the same or closely related tasks seem to reappear frequently in somewhat altered guises, the somewhat more elegant reference should be to the punishment visited on Sisyphus.”
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