UNITED STATES EX REL. SHELL OIL CO. v. BARCO CORPORATION

No. 19996.

430 F.2d 998 (1970)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. SHELL OIL COMPANY, Appellee, v. BARCO CORPORATION and John Barakat, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

August 13, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Nemmers, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for appellants.

John O. Tramontine, Fish & Neave, New York City, for appellee; William J. Barnes, New York City, and Upton B. Kepford, Waterloo, Iowa, on the brief.

Before MATTHES, Chief Judge, and HEANEY and BRIGHT, Circuit Judges.


MATTHES, Chief Judge.

Appellants, the Barco Corporation and its president, John Barakat, were found guilty of criminal contempt of court for disobedience of the district court's order enjoining their further infringement of a patent held by Shell Oil Company (Shell). For the reasons hereinafter expressed, we affirm.

In 1966, Shell instituted a civil action in the district court charging appellants with infringing United States Patent No. 2,956,073 by the manufacture...

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