L. HAND, Circuit Judge (after stating the facts as above).
While we agree that zeolites were well known when Gans filed the patent in suit, we held in the appeal from the interlocutory decree that his filter was the first practically adapted for use as a water softener and the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has independently reached the same conclusion.
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