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HORINE v. ETHICON, INC.

No. 8010.

142 F.Supp. 282 (1956)

Cyrus F. HORINE v. ETHICON, Inc., a corporation doing business in Maryland and Kloman Instrument, Inc., a body corporate of the State of Maryland and Murray-Baumgartner Surgical Instrument Company, Inc., a body corporate of the State of Maryland.

United States District Court D. Maryland, Civil Division.

June 15, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julius G. Maurer, J. Wesley Everett, and Wendell D. Allen, Baltimore, Md., for plaintiff.

George B. Finnegan, Jr., Granville M. Pine, and Morgan, Finnegan, Durham & Pine, New York City, and Piper & Marbury, Baltimore, Md., for defendants.

THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

The principal issue in this case is whether a suture package, manufactured by defendant Ethicon during the years 1951 to 1954, infringes any of the claims in two patents issued to plaintiff in 1940.1,2 In brief, these claims embrace the combination in a suture package of (1) a conical bobbin, (2) a twisted suture strand wound helically in a single layer thereon, with each convolution around...

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