Landmark Patent Law Case: Blonder Tongue - The Case Files

Northern District Court of Illinois

Date
Title
Link
Pages
05/23/1966 Blonder-Tongue Complaint against JFD Electronics and Univ. of Ill. Found. [DRAFT (E.D.N.Y.)] link to doc 13
05/24/1966 Motion to Dismiss under Rule 12b and Motion for Summary Judgment under Rule 56 link to doc 2
06/08/1966 Affidavit of Edward Finkel link to doc 2
06/12/1966 Univ. of Ill. Found. Answering Brief Opposing Motion of Blonder-Tongue to Dismiss link to doc 7
06/22/1966 Univ. of Ill. Found.'s First Set of Interrogatories to Blonder-Tongue under Rule 33 link to doc 6
07/12/1966 Stipulation between parties extending Blonder-Tongue's Time to object to Univ. of Ill. Found.'s First Set of Interrogatories link to doc 1
07/22/1966 Affidavit of Marjorie A. Johnson link to doc 16
07/27/1966 Blonder-Tongue Answers to Univ. of Ill. Found.'s Interrogatories link to doc 2
08/11/1966 Blonder-Tongue Answers to Univ. of Ill. Found.'s Interrogatories link to doc 6
08/13/1966 Transcript for Hearing Before Julius J. Hoffman link to doc 12
09/01/1966 Blonder-Tongue Answer and Counterclaim link to doc 14
09/06/1966 Blonder-Tongue Motion to Join JFD Electronics Corp. as a Party Counterclaim Defendant link to doc 2
09/22/1966 JFD Electronics Corp. Notice of Taking Depositions on 10.07.66 link to doc 2
09/23/1966 Plaintiff Univ. of Ill. Found. Reply to Counterclaim of Blonder-Tongue link to doc 7
10/01/1966 Blonder-Tongue Substitute Answer to Plaintiff's Second Set of Interrogatories and Answers to Univ. of Ill. Found.'s Third Set of Interrogatories link to doc 11
10/19/1966 Blonder-Tongue Substitute Answers to Univ. of Ill. Corp.'s Second Set of Interrogatories and Answers to Univ. of Ill. Corp.'s Third Set of Interrogatories link to doc 13
10/27/1966 Deposition of Paul E. Mayes link to doc 152
11/01/1966 JFD Electronics Corp. Reply Counterclaim of Blonder-Tongue and Cross Claim link to doc 11
12/14/1966 Continued Deposition of Dr. Paul E. Mayes link to doc 61
12/15/1966 Deposition of Ronald D. Grant link to doc 55
01/05/1967 Stipulation allowing Univ. of Ill. to file Amended Complaint link to doc 2
01/12/1967 U.S.D.C. Order for Univ. of Ill. Found. to Produce for Inspection to Blonder-Tongue link to doc 1
01/13/1967 Univ. of Ill. Found. Amended Complaint link to doc 4
01/13/1967 Univ. of Ill. Found. Motion for Leave to File Amended Complaint link to doc 4
01/20/1967 JFD Electronics Corp.'s Notice of Taking Deposition of Dick Helhoski on Feb. 6 1967 link to doc 2
01/23/1967 Blonder-Tongue Amended Answer link to doc 10
01/23/1967 Blonder-Tongue Amended Answer and Counterclaim link to doc 10
01/23/1967 Notice of Prior Art to be Relied Upon by the JFD Electronics Corp. at the Trial of this Action link to doc 4
01/24/1967 Supplemental Notice Of Prior Art To Be Relied Upon By The JFD Electronics Corp. At The Trial Of This Action link to doc 2
01/30/1967 JFD Electronic Corp.'s Reply to Amended Counter Claim of Blonder-Tongue and Cross Claim link to doc 4
02/02/1967 Blonder-Tongue's Motion to Postpone Depositions no earlier than Feb. 20 1967 link to doc 7
02/02/1967 Second Supplemental Notice Of Prior Art To Be Relied Upon By The JFD Electronics Corp. At The Trial Of This Action link to doc 2
02/08/1967 Blonder-Tongue Notice of Examination of JFD Electronics Corp. Jerome N. Balash and John Doe link to doc 4
02/09/1967 Notice of Taking Deposition of Robert F. Heslin on Feb. 14 1967 link to doc 2
02/14/1967 Deposition of Robert F. Heslin link to doc 32
02/14/1967 Exhibits for unknown doc link to doc 7
02/15/1967 Examination of Harry Gilbert before Trial link to doc 36
02/16/1967 Interrogatories of Blonder-Tongue to Univ. of Ill. Found. and the Univ. of Ill. under Rule 33 link to doc 9
02/17/1967 Deposition of Jerome N. Balash link to doc 54
02/17/1967 Exhibit H1 for unknown document link to doc 1
02/23/1967 Deposition of Robert F. Heslin link to doc 32
02/28/1967 Answers of Univ. of Ill. Found. to Interrogatories of Blonder-Tongue Filed Feb. 16 1967 link to doc 18
02/28/1967 Stipulation of Fact regarding authenticity of exhibits link to doc 2
03/01/1967 Pretrial Order regarding introduction and availability of exhibits among parties link to doc 3
03/02/1967 Continuation of Examination of Jerome I. Cohn before Trial link to doc 13
03/02/1967 Continuation of Examination of Richard B. Helhoski link to doc 53
03/23/1967 JFD Electronics Corp. Motion to Dismiss Cross Claim link to doc 1
03/27/1967 Exhibits which may be Offered by Blonder-Tongue at Trial link to doc 9
03/27/1967 List of Witnesses for Blonder-Tongue link to doc 2
03/29/1967 Blonder-Tongue List of Witnesses and Exhibits link to doc 11
03/29/1967 JFD Electronics Corp. List of Exhibits and Witnesses link to doc 5
03/29/1967 Stipulation re patent copies publications suggested by Phillips to Cass and Mann link to doc 1
04/01/1967 Additional Supplemental Notice Of Prior Art To Be Relied Upon By The JFD Electronics Corp. At The Trial Of This Action link to doc 3
04/05/1967 Further Additional Supplemental Notice Of Prior Art To Be Relied Upon By The JFD Electronics Corp. At The Trial Of This Action link to doc 3
04/06/1967 JFD Electronics Corp. List of Witnesses and Exhibits link to doc 3
04/17/1967 DRAFT Memorandum of the Finney Company in Support of Motion for Summary Judgment link to doc 107
04/21/1967 JFD Electronics Corp.'s Trial Memorandum link to doc 38
04/25/1967 Brief in Advance of Trial of Blonder-Tongue link to doc 10
04/25/1967 Univ. of Ill. Found. Trial Memorandum link to doc 17
04/27/1967 Blonder-Tongue Brief In Advance Of Trial DRAFT link to doc 17
04/27/1967 Deposition of Hjalmar W. Johnson link to doc 52
04/27/1967 Deposition of James C. Colvin link to doc 57
05/25/1967 Blonder-Tongue Motion to Reschedule Trial link to doc 7
09/08/1967 Univ. of Ill. Found. Motion For Order Postponing Trial Date link to doc 2
10/20/1967 Affidavit of Richard S. Phillips and Motion for Rescheduling the Trial link to doc 7
12/26/1967 Affidavit of Richard S. Phillips link to doc 4
12/28/1967 Exhibits Identified during the Deposition of Edward Finkel link to doc 54
02/15/1968 Brief of Blonder-Tongue in Support of Counts 1 2 and 3 of its Counterclaim link to doc 62
03/18/1968 Answering Brief of Univ. of Ill. Found. to Counts 1 2 and 3 of Counterclaim link to doc 30
03/18/1968 JFD Electronics Corp.'s Reply Brief to Univ. of Ill. Found.'s Brief After Trial link to doc 26
04/17/1968 Finding of Fact and Conclusions of Law Proposed by Blonder-Tongue link to doc 15
04/17/1968 List of Blonder-Tongue Exhibits link to doc 4
04/17/1968 Reply Brief of Blonder-Tongue in Support of Counts 1 2 and 3 of its Counterclaim link to doc 26
04/17/1968 Reply Brief of Univ. of Ill. Found. link to doc 22
04/18/1968 Proposed Judgment Order by Blonder-Tongue link to doc 3
06/27/1968 Order by Julius J. Hoffman for Univ. of Ill. Found. v. Blonder-Tongue link to doc 2
07/25/1968 Blonder-Tongue Notice of Appeal to United States Court of Appeal, Seventh Circuit link to doc 2
07/26/1968 Order by Joseph S. Perry For Stay of Judgment Order of 6.27.68 and approval of Supersedeas Bond in the Amount of $20,000 link to doc 1

 

 

United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Date
Title
Link
Pages
10/09/1968 Appellant Blonder-Tongue's Motion for Enlargement of Time for Blonder-Tongue to File Appendix and Brief link to doc 8
12/03/1968 Appellee Univ. of Ill.'s Motion to Docket Subject Appeal on the January 1969 Docket link to doc 6
02/23/1970 Appellant Blonder-Tongue's Petition for Clarification Reconsideration and Rehearing Before the Court en Banc link to doc 15
02/27/1970 Appellee Univ. of Ill. Found. Bill of Costs link to doc 3
03/04/1970 Appellant Blonder-Tongue's Memorandum Opposing Cost Bills link to doc 4
03/04/1970 Appellant Blonder-Tongue's Petition for Stay of Mandate link to doc 3
03/04/1970 Appellant Blonder-Tongue's Verified Statement of Cost under F.R.A.P. 39a link to doc 7
04/02/1970 Opinion by Thomas E. Fairchild for the Seventh Circuit link to doc 11
07/06/1970 Order by Thomas E. Fairchild for Seventh Circuit mandate be stayed only until July 10, 1970 link to doc 1

 

 

Supreme Court of the United States

Date
Title
Link
Pages
12/02/1970 Motion of the Finney Company as Amicus Curiae for Leave to Present Oral Argument link to doc 3
12/24/1970 Petitioner Blonder-Tongue's Motion in Opposition to Granting the Solicitor Generals Amicus Curiae Request and Motion for Enlargement of Petitioner Blonder-Tongues Time for Oral Argument link to doc 12
01/05/1971 Motion for Leave to Present Oral Argument on Behalf of Automatic Electric Company Amicus Curiae link to doc 4
06/17/1971 Order by the Supreme Court of the United States link to doc 1

 

 

United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Date
Title
Link
Pages
05/03/1971 Unanimous Opinion by Justice White for the Supreme Court link to doc 22
06/24/1971 Order from the Seventh Circuit after Remand from Supreme Court link to doc 1

 

 

On Remand in the Northern District Court of Illinois as Directed by Supreme Court

Date
Title
Link
Pages
07/27/1971 Univ. of Ill. Found.'s Reply To Blonder-Tongues Memorandum In Opposition To Its Motion for Summary Judgment after Remand link to doc 7
07/29/1971 Blonder-Tongue's Motion for Leave to File a Memorandum Answering Univ. of Ill. Found. Reply to Blonder-Tongue's Memorandum in Opposition to its Motion for Judgment after Remand link to doc 10
07/29/1971 Motion Of Blonder-Tongue For Judgment And Argument In Support Thereof link to doc 2
09/27/1971 Memorandum of Decision and Order on Remand by Julius J. Hoffman link to doc 12
09/27/1971 Memorandum of Decision and Order on Remand by Julius J. Hoffman (2) link to doc 5
10/01/1971 Order by Julius J. Hoffman Releasing Supersedeas Bond link to doc 1
10/12/1971 Univ. of Ill. Found. Notice of Appeal to Court of Appeals for Judgment entered 9.27.71 link to doc 2
10/27/1971 Stipulation to include records from District Court Docket on Appeal Docket link to doc 7
11/22/1971 Univ. of Ill. Found. Motion For Enlargement Of Time For Univ. of Ill. Found. to Docket the Appeal and For Transmission of the Record link to doc 5

 

 

United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Date
Title
Link
Pages
12/14/1971 Univ. of Ill. Found.'s Motion allowing appendix previously filed with court to be considered and Leave to File Supplemental Appendix link to doc 5
12/15/1971 Order by Wilbur F. Pell Jr. Directing Blonder-Tongue to File Answer to Univ. of Ill. Found. on or before Dec. 27 1971 link to doc 1
12/27/1971 Univ. of Ill. Found. Motion for Enlargement of Time in Which to File Univ. of Ill. Found.'s Brief link to doc 6
12/28/1971 Order by Robert A. Sprecher Granting Time for Univ. of Ill. Found. to File Brief link to doc 1
01/03/1972 Order by Wilbur F. Pell Jr. Granting Leave to Consider Appendix to Brief for Blonder-Tongue link to doc 1
01/28/1972 Univ. of Ill. Found. Brief before Seventh Circuit link to doc 14
02/19/1972 DRAFT Appellee Blonder-Tongue's Reply Brief link to doc 16
07/25/1972 United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit Opinion for Univ. of Ill. Found. v. Blonder-Tongue link to doc 2

 

 

Supreme Court of the United States

Date
Title
Link
Pages
11/03/1972 Blonder-Tongue's Reply Brief in Opposition to Petition for Writ of Certiorari link to doc 5
12/11/1972 Letter from the Clerk of Supreme Court of the United States Denying the Petition for a Writ of Certiorari link to doc 1

 

 

Secondary Sources Regarding Univ. of Ill. Found. v. Blonder-Tongue Lab.s

Date
Title
Link
Pages
10/22/1971 Blonder-Tongue Panel Discussion APLA link to doc 16
- Journal of the Patent Office Society Blonder-Tongue and the Shape of Future Patent Litigation link to doc 7

 

 

Miscellaneous Documents

Date
Title
Link
Pages
02/28/1953 USPO Log Periodic Rod Antenna link to doc 6
06/12/1959 def. ex. 20 Research Project Report on Antenna for High Speed Aircraft link to doc 2
05/03/1960 Assignment Freq. Ind. Unidirectional Antennas Univ. of Ill. link to doc 1
05/03/1962 License Agreement Univ. of Ill. and JFD Electronics Corp. link to doc 12
10/31/1962 License Agreement JFD Electronics Corp. and Paul Mayes link to doc 6
10/22/1963 USPO Correction to Backward Wave Antenna Array link to doc 4
09/24/1964 Renewal for Agreement between JFD Electronics Corp. and Paul E. Mayes link to doc 6
10/19/1964 National Electronics Conference in Modern Antenna Theory link to doc 11
09/17/1965 The Finney Company Amended Complaint link to doc 19
10/07/1965 Answers by The Finney Company to JFD Electronics Corps Second Set of Interrogatories to the Finney Company under Rule 33 link to doc 4
10/07/1965 Finney Company Response to JFD Electronics Corp.'s First Set of Interrogatories to the Finney Company under Rule 33 link to doc 48
12/01/1965 License Agreement Univ. of Ill. and JFD Electronics Corp. link to doc 21
12/02/1965 Answers by the Finney Company to Additional Interrogatories under Rule 33 filed by the Univ. of Ill. Found. link to doc 11
01/03/1966 Additional Answers by the Finney Company to Additional Interrogatories under Rule 33 filed by the Univ. of Ill. Found. link to doc 12
02/10/1966 Answers by the Finney Company to Interrogatories under Rule 33 filed by the Univ. of Ill. Found. link to doc 41
05/04/1966 Statement by Edward Finkel on Behalf of JFD Electronics Corp. link to doc 6
02/01/1967 Deposition of Dr. Paul E. Mayes link to doc 99
02/01/1967 Deposition of Harold B. Lawler link to doc 51
03/30/1967 Finney Company Motion for Summary Judgment with JFD Electronics Corp. link to doc 4
04/21/1967 Affidavit of John F. Pearne link to doc 1
04/24/1967 Plaintiff Finney Company Motion for Summary Judgment and Memorandum in Support of the Motion link to doc 124
05/09/1967 Letter to Robert Rines with copies of briefs for Univ. of Ill.Found. v. Winegard Company link to doc 237
08/01/1967 Affidavit of Harold B. Lawler link to doc 10
08/11/1967 Brief of Defendant Univ. of Ill. Found. in Opposition to the Finney Company's Motion for Summary Judgment link to doc 39
09/13/1967 Finney Company Reply Brief in Support of its Motion for Summary Judgment link to doc 28
11/29/1971 Stipulation and Order for Extension of Time for the Defendant Macom Industries link to doc 2
01/17/1972 Plaintiff Blonder-Tongue Reply to Counterclaim by Macom Industries link to doc 2
02/11/1972 Blonder-Tongue Reply to Counterclaim by Howard Mercer link to doc 3
02/11/1972 Howard Mercer First Amended Answer and Counterclaim to the First Amended Complaint by Blonder-Tongue link to doc 8
- Affidavit of Lewis H. Finneburgh Jr link to doc 23
- Antenna Specifications and Literature 1 link to doc 100
- Antenna Specifications and Literature 2 link to doc 121
- Antenna Specifications and Literature 3 link to doc 58
- Blonder-Tongue's Brief in Opposition to Petition for Writ of Certiorari link to doc 4
- Blonder-Tongue Notes on Expert Testimony on Obviousness link to doc 63
- Case Comparison Notes for unknown draft link to doc 146
- DRAFT Agreed Order for Univ. of Ill. Found. and JFD Electronic Corp. link to doc 3
- Draft notes for Reply Brief for Blonder-Tongue 1969 link to doc 69
- Finney Company Motion for Summary Judgment link to doc 4
- Foundation News Releases 1966 link to doc 10
- JFD Electronic Corp. Notes around 11.1.66 link to doc 10
- K.O. Antenna Specifications link to doc 9
- Motion to Dismiss under Rule 12b and Motion for Summary Judgment under Rule 56 link to doc 12
- Notes for Order and Notice of Appeal on 7.25.68 link to doc 18
- Secondary Source regarding Depositions in Pending Action link to doc 2
- separated pages from unknown docs link to doc 17
- Stipulation regarding Blonder-Tongue Exhibits 31 to 41 link to doc 9
- Stipulation regarding Blonder-Tongue group Exhibit 30 link to doc 2
- Stipulation regarding exhibits 44 and 45 link to doc 1
- Transcript for unknown depositions link to doc 18

 

 

Correspondence

Date
Title
Link
Pages
- Correspondence 1963 link to doc 67
- Correspondence 1964 link to doc 131
- Correspondence 1966 (1) link to doc 102
- Correspondence 1966 (2) link to doc 104
- Correspondence 1966 (3) link to doc 112
- Correspondence 1966 (4) link to doc 161
- Correspondence 1966 (5) link to doc 125
- Correspondence 1966 (6) link to doc 13
- Correspondence 1967 (1) link to doc 102
- Correspondence 1967 (2) link to doc 157
- Correspondence 1967 (3) link to doc 201
- Correspondence 1967 (4) link to doc 118
- Correspondence 1967 (5) link to doc 229
- Correspondence 1967 (6) link to doc 115
- Correspondence 1968 (1) link to doc 118
- Correspondence 1968 (2) link to doc 62
- Correspondence 1969 link to doc 210
- Correspondence 1970 (1) link to doc 131
- Correspondence 1970 (2) link to doc 72
- Correspondence 1971 (1) link to doc 202
- Correspondence 1971 (2) link to doc 90
- Correspondence 1972 (1) link to doc 135
- Correspondence 1972 (2) link to doc 123
- Infringers Sue Correspondence 1964 1966 link to doc 18
- Legal Correspondence 1966 link to doc 2

 

Indices and List of Documents, Witnesses, and Exhibits

Date
Title
Link
Pages
- INDEX Blonder-Tongue Exhibits Chicago Depositions 10.24.66 10.28.66 1 link to doc 8
- INDEX for Documents and Exhibits for Univ. of Ill. Found. v. Blonder-Tongue v. JFD Electronics Corp. link to doc 6
- INDEX for Finney v. Univ. of Ill. Found. v. JFD Electronics Corp. link to doc 1
- INDEX for JFD Electronics Corp. and Blonder-Tongue Exhibits link to doc 5
- INDEX to Blonder-Tongue documents filed with Seventh Circuit Court link to doc 4
- Univ. of Ill. Found. Exhibits INDEX from Depositions on 10.24.66 link to doc 1
- LIST of Exhibits for Vol. 1 and 2 for Appeal before the Seventh Circuit link to doc 4
- JFD Electronics Exhibits INDEX J1 to J7 link to doc 1
- JFD Electronics Corp. LIST of Witnesses and Exhibits link to doc 3

 

Separated Exhibits

Date
Title
Link
Pages
- Defendant Exhibit 10 link to doc 2
- Defendants Exhibits 14 to 19 for unknown document link to doc 65
- Documents with Bates 5006 to 5671 link to doc 93
- Exhibit 14 Antenna Specifications link to doc 9
- Exhibit 6 Antenna Specifications and Literature link to doc 13
- Exhibit 9 Antenna Specifications and Literature link to doc 2
- Exhibits B103 to B114 for unknown document link to doc 21
- Exhibits B 45 and B 46 from Paul E. Mayes Deposition link to doc 218
- Exhibits of Helhoski Deposition Num. 47 link to doc 15
- Exhibits to unknown documents link to doc 66
- JFD Electronics Corp. Notes 1967 link to doc 18
- JFD Electronics Corp. Exhibits 1 link to doc 24
- Unknown exhibits of correspondence and specifications link to doc 34

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