MARIS, Circuit Judge.
The question presented on this appeal is whether a state court decision in a suit for royalties under a patent license agreement that the licensee's device was not within the scope of the patent bars the litigation of the issue whether the same device infringes the same patent in a subsequent infringement suit between the same parties in the federal court.
The plaintiff, Jewell W. Vanderveer, and the defendant, Erie Malleable Iron Company...
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