COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYS. v. SYLVANIA ELECTRIC PROD., INC.

No. 7291.

415 F.2d 719 (1969)

COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. SYLVANIA ELECTRIC PRODUCTS, INC., Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

As Amended on Rehearing October 7, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Hoxie, New York City, with whom John J. Curtin, Jr., Wellesley Hills, Mass., John B. Pegram, James H. Grover, Bingham, Dana & Gould, Boston, Mass., Davis, Hoxie, Faithfull & Hapgood, New York City, and Roberts, Cushman & Grover, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellant.

Herbert P. Kenway, Boston, Mass., with whom George W. Crowley, Boston, Mass., John A. Reilly, New York City, and Kenway, Jenney & Hildreth, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellee.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, McENTEE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.


COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

In 1966 CBS brought suit in the district court for the District of Massachusetts against Sylvania claiming the infringement of three patents relating to color television picture tubes. The three patents are the Fyler and Rowe patent, No. 2,690,518, and the two Giuffrida patents, Nos. 3,179,836 and 3,222,172. After a lengthy trial the district court held that all three patents were valid and had been...

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