Wasco Products, Inc. v. Southwall Tech

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

WASCO PRODUCTS, INC., 

Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 04-15171 v.  D.C. No.

CV-02-02926-SBA

SOUTHWALL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.;

BOSTIK, INC., OPINION

Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California Saundra B. Armstrong, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted October 18, 2005—San Francisco, California

Filed January 13, 2006

Before: J. Clifford Wallace, Stephen S. Trott, and Pamela Ann Rymer, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Wallace COUNSEL

T. Scott Tate, Law Offices of T. Scott Tate, San Francisco, California, for plaintiff-appellant Wasco Products, Inc.

Mark S. Freeman, Choate, Hall & Stewart, Boston, Massa- chusetts, for defendant-appellee Southwall Technologies, Inc.

David R. Scheidemantle, Proskauer Rose LLP, Los Angeles, California, for defendant-appellee Bostik, Inc. 726 WASCO PRODUCTS v. SOUTHWALL TECHNOLOGIES

OPINION

WALLACE, Senior Circuit Judge:

Wasco Products, Inc. (Wasco) appeals from the summary judgment granted to the appellees. Wasco…