GASOLINE PRODUCTS CO. v. AMERICAN REFINING CO.

No. 571.

19 F.2d 175 (1927)

GASOLINE PRODUCTS CO., Inc., v. AMERICAN REFINING CO., Inc.

District Court, D. Delaware.

April 22, 1927.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melville Church, of Washington, D. C., Ramsay Hoguet and Daniel L. Morris, both of New York City, Thomas E. Scofield, of Kansas City, Mo., and E. Ennalls Berl (of Ward, Gray & Ward), of Wilmington, Del., for plaintiff.

Frank S. Busser, of Philadelphia, Pa., Tarlton Morrow, of Wichita Falls, Tex., and William S. Hilles, of Wilmington, Del., for defendant.


MORRIS, District Judge.

The patent, No. 1,423,500, whose validity, as well as its infringement by American Refining Company, Inc., the defendant, are here in question, was granted in 1922 to the plaintiff, Gasoline Products Company, Inc., assignee of Roy Cross the inventor. It relates to a process — oil cracking — in which, by the application of heat and pressure, the heavy complex hydrocarbons of petroleum oils are broken up into lighter hydrocarbons...

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