KAISER INDUSTRIES CORPORATION v. McLOUTH STEEL CORP.

No. 17497.

400 F.2d 36 (1968)

KAISER INDUSTRIES CORPORATION, Vereinigte Oesterreichische Eisen-und Stahlwerke Aktiengesellschaft, and Brassert Oxygen Technik AC., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. McLOUTH STEEL CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

August 2, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Webb, Pittsburgh, Pa., John A. Dienner, Chicago, Ill., John M. Webb, David C. Bruening, Pittsburgh, Pa., W. Brown Morton, Jr., New York City, George E. Brand Jr., Detroit, Mich., on brief; Webb, Burden, Robinson & Webb, Pittsburgh, Pa., Brown, Jackson, Boettcher & Dienner, Chicago, Ill., of counsel, for appellants.

John Vaughan Groner, New York City, William B. Cudlip, T. Donald Wade, Dickinson, Wright, McKean & Cudlip, Detroit, Mich., on brief; John Vaughan Groner, Ronald F. Ball, Donald E. Degling, Fish, Richardson & Neave, New York City, of counsel, for appellee.

Before WEICK, Chief Judge, and EDWARDS and CELEBREZZE, Circuit Judges.


CELEBREZZE, Circuit Judge.

Appellants filed an action in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan complaining that Appellee had infringed the Appellants' patented process for refining steel with pure oxygen. Appellee first defended by contending that a know-how agreement, for which Appellee paid $100,000 to Appellants, constituted a license to use the Appellants' process. The District Court held against the Appellee on that point, Henry...

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