HOUSTON OIL FIELD MATERIAL COMPANY v. CLAYPOOL

No. 17529.

269 F.2d 134 (1959)

HOUSTON OIL FIELD MATERIAL COMPANY, Inc., et al., Appellants, v. Robbins M. CLAYPOOL and David M. Best, d/b/a Gulf Tool Company, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied October 9, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Austin C. Wilson, Jefferson D. Giller, James F. Weiler, Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman, Bates & Jaworski, Houston, Tex., for appellants.

Jack W. Hayden, B. R. Pravel, Hayden & Pravel, Houston, Tex., for appellees.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and TUTTLE and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an interlocutory decree of the trial court sustaining the validity of claims 5 through 11 of Patent No. 2,698,761, and finding that all tools in suit made by appellants constituted infringement.

The findings of fact and conclusions of law, which set out the nature of the patent and the need sought to be filled by the alleged invention are reported at 166 F.Supp. 173, sub nom...

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