United States Third Circuit

Summary judgment for plaintiff and entry of a permanent injunction in its favor in a trademark and trade secret dispute between corn-seed businesses owned by relatives of the same founder is reversed where plaintiff did not meet its burden of showing that it was entitled to judgment as a matter of law.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/30/2005
• Decided 03/23/2006
• Published 03/23/2006

Judges

• Before: NYGAARD,SMITH, and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Rees Griffiths, Barley Snyder, York, PA, John G. Harkins, Jr. (Argued), Steven A. Reed, Harkins Cunningham, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lewis F. Gould, Jr., Duane Morris, Philadelphia, PA, Samuel W. Apicelli, Duane Morris, Harrisburg, PA, Jams J. Kutz (Argued), Post & Schell, Harrisburg, PA, for Appellee, Doeblers' Pennsylvania Hybrids, Inc., Stephen Moniak, Thomas G. Collins, Buchanan Ingersoll, Harrisburg, PA, for Appellees, Willard L. Jones and William R. Camerer, III.