William Gluckin & Co. v. Int’l. Play­tex Corp., 407 F.2d 177 (2d Cir. 1969), is an opin­ion uphold­ing the issuance of a pre­lim­i­nary injunc­tion against Play­tex, man­u­fac­turer of, ahem, ladies’ sup­port gar­ments, pro­hibit­ing Play­tex from pros­e­cut­ing a law­suit it had filed against Wool­worth & Co. for sell­ing brassieres man­u­fac­tured by Gluckin at Woolworth’s stores in Geor­gia. See, what hap­pened was this: Play­tex had a patent, and Gluckin (allegedly) infringed the patent and sold the infring­ing unmen­tion­ables to Wool­worths, who sold lots of them in Geor­gia. Woolworth’s, Play­tex, and Gluckin were all New York cor­po­ra­tions amenable to suit in New York, but Gluckin was not [ . . . ]

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