CHERRY-BURRELL CORPORATION v. COE

No. 8487.

143 F.2d 372 (1944)

CHERRY-BURRELL CORPORATION v. COE, Commissioner of Patents.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia.

Decided June 19, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Norman E. H. Deletzke, of Chicago, Ill., of the Bar of the Supreme Court of Illinois, pro hac vice, by special leave of Court, with whom Mr. James H. Littlehales, of Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. W. W. Cochran, Solicitor, United States Patent Office, of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and MILLER and ARNOLD, Associate Justices.


MILLER, Associate Justice.

This case involves milk bottle washing machinery which appellant claims is inventive in character — even though it may appear to the uninitiated as relatively simple and easy of accomplishment — because it was originated by employees of appellant only after many preliminary experiments; and thereafter required the expenditure of great effort and the incurring of considerable expense to bring it to a successful conclusion and...

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