United States Seventh Circuit

In a RICO suit alleging that defendant had given false information to the Patent & Trademark Office in order to deny plaintiff a patent on an automobile dashboard bezel, dismissal of plaintiff's case is affirmed where: 1) plaintiff could not show a sufficiently lengthy period to support a RICO allegation; 2) plaintiff did not allege a sufficient number and variety of predicate acts to show a RICO violation; 3) plaintiff was the only identifiable victim; 4) plaintiff suffered only one articulable injury; 5) plaintiff also failed to show a violation of state RICO law; and 6) other state law claims were not ripe for review.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/27/2006
• Decided 07/25/2007
• Published 07/25/2007

Judges

• WOOD, Circuit Judge., Before WOOD, EVANS, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David M. Lockman (argued), Maginot, Moore & Bowman, Indianapolis, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel D. Trachtman, Wooden & McLaughlin, Indianapolis, IN, Kenneth W. Brothers (argued), Dickstein Shapiro, Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellee, Auto Meter Products, Inc., Bryan D. Wright (argued), Williams Mullen, Charlottesville, VA, for Defendants-Appellees, Gauge Works LLC and Gregory Day.