LORENZ v. COLGATE-PALMOLIVE-PEET CO.


34 F.Supp. 315 (1940)

LORENZ et al. v. COLGATE-PALMOLIVE-PEET CO.

District Court, D. New Jersey.

August 23, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Maxson, of New York City (Charles H. Wilson, Thomas Ewing, Ernest L. Conant, and William L. Morris, all of New York City, and Edward A. Markley, of Jersey City, N. J., of counsel), for plaintiffs.

Wall, Haight, Carey & Hartpence, of Jersey City, N. J. (Pennie, Davis, Marvin & Edmonds, Frank E. Barrows, and Roger T. McLean, all of New York City, of counsel), for defendant.


CLARK, District Judge.

This litigation has been both protracted and embarrassing. In fact, the characteristics have interacted. The difficulty has arisen from circumstances perhaps more common to patent than other law suits (cf. the genus inventor) but still unusual and, as we think, trying. One of the plaintiffs (Lorenz) is an elderly chemist, very little of whose professional life has been devoted to the art of his claimed and now contested patent. The other (Wilson...

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