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HONOLULU OIL CORPORATION v. SHELBY POULTRY COMPANY

No. 8237.

293 F.2d 127 (1961)

HONOLULU OIL CORPORATION, and Barker Poultry Equipment Company, Appellants, v. SHELBY POULTRY COMPANY, a partnership consisting of William L. Shaw and L. E. Needham, and The Pickwick Company, Intervenor, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 24, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert F. Conrad, Washington, D. C. (Raymond P. de Member, Watson, Cole, Grindle & Watson, Washington, D. C., Thomas B. Gay, and Hunton, Williams, Gay, Powell & Gibson, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellants.

Frank W. Snepp, Jr., Charlotte, N. C. (Edward A. Haight, Haight, Lockwood & Simmons, Chicago, Ill., and McDougle, Ervin, Horack & Snepp, Charlotte, N. C., on brief), for appellees.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and SOPER and HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judges.

HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge.

We are concerned with chicken feathers and their removal during the processing of poultry for marketing. Patents covering an apparatus and a method for removal of the feathers were held by the District Court to be invalid for obviousness in the light of paper patents in other fields.1 We think the credit the District Court gave the work of the patentee was less than...

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