POLAROID CORPORATION v. MARKHAM

No. 8854.

151 F.2d 89 (1945)

POLAROID CORPORATION et al. v. MARKHAM, Allen Property Custodian, et al.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia.

Decided September 24, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles Mikulka, of New York City, pro hac vice, by special leave of Court, with whom Messrs. Cecil A. Beasley, of Washington, D. C., and Nathaniel R. French, of Cambridge, Mass., were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. B. F. Garvey, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Messrs. Harry LeRoy Jones, Chief, Alien Property Litigation Unit, and Irving J. Levy, Chief Trial Attorney, Department of Justice, both of Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee Alien Property Custodian.

Messrs. W. W. Cochran, Solicitor, United States Patent Office, and E. L. Reynolds, both of Washington, D. C., entered appearances for appellee Commissioner of Patents.

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


PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court in a suit under R.S. § 49151 to obtain a patent. The claim relates to a polarizing film placed between layers of transparent material. The film merges gradually, with decreasing polarizing effect, into the surrounding material. In December, 1939, a patent on this claim was awarded to Sauer, a German national whose rights are now vested in appellee the Alien Property...

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