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KIDD v. AMERICAN COTTON FIBER CO.

Nos. 993, 1003.

52 F.2d 684 (1929)

KIDD v. AMERICAN COTTON FIBER CO. et al. (two cases).

District Court, W. D. Tennessee, W. D.

May 24, 1929.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilson, Gates & Armstrong of Memphis, Tenn., Gillson, Mann & Cox, of Chicago, Ill., and Johnston & Jennings, of Birmingham, Ala., for plaintiff.

Chandler, Shepherd & Owen, of Memphis, Tenn., and Cornwall, Bedell & Janus, of St. Louis, Mo., for defendants.

ANDERSON, District Judge.

The court finds:

(a) That the Kidd patents are both valid and infringed.

(b) That the Redus patent is neither valid nor infringed.

The overwhelming proof is that Kidd had reduced his second patent to practice before Redus disclosed his alleged patent to any outsider.

Taking from the two machines all that is common to the prior art, everything in the Redus machine is copied from the Kidd machine.

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