UNION ASBESTOS & RUBBER COMPANY v. EVANS PRODUCTS COMPANY

No. 14279.

328 F.2d 949 (1964)

UNION ASBESTOS & RUBBER COMPANY, by change of name Unarco Industries, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. EVANS PRODUCTS COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

March 4, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin S. Booth and Norman Lettvin, Chicago, Ill., Bair, Freeman & Molinare, Chicago, Ill., of counsel, for appellant.

Patrick Hume, Chicago, Ill., Robert L. Boynton, Detroit, Mich., Byron, Hume, Groen & Clement and Granger Cook, Jr., Chicago, Ill., Arthur W. Dickey, Cyrus G. Minkler, Harness, Dickey & Pierce, Detroit, Mich., of counsel, for appellee.

Before SCHNACKENBERG, KNOCH and KILEY, Circuit Judges.


KILEY, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff's appeal from the district court's dismissal of its patent infringement suit for improper venue raises the question: Whether defendant's activities, in the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, amounted to "acts of infringement" of plaintiff's patent.1 We disagree with the district court's negative answer to the question.

Since defendant concedes that it has a regular and established place...

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