BINNEY & SMITH CO. v. UNITED CARBON CO.

No. 4837.

125 F.2d 255 (1942)

BINNEY & SMITH CO. v. UNITED CARBON CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

January 6, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dean S. Edmonds, of New York City (Roger T. McLean, of New York City, Howard R. Klostermeyer and Price, Smith & Spilman, all of Charleston, W. Va., and Pennie, Davis, Marvin & Edmonds, of New York City, on the brief), for appellant.

George P. Dike, of Boston, Mass. (Arthur M. Smith, of Detroit, Mich., and Osman E. Swartz, of Charleston, W. Va., on the brief), for appellees.

Before PARKER, SOPER, and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.


PARKER, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit for infringement of Wiegand and Venuto Patent No. 1,889,429, covering carbon black pellets and a process for making them. It was instituted by Binney & Smith Company, assignee of the patent, against the United Carbon Company and the United Carbon Company, Inc. Only the product claims of the patent, claims 1 and 2, are in suit. The court below held these claims invalid as lacking novelty and invention and also because of indefiniteness...

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