DOLE VALVE COMPANY v. PERFECTION BAR EQUIPMENT, INC.

No. 17426.

419 F.2d 968 (1969)

The DOLE VALVE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PERFECTION BAR EQUIPMENT, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

December 11, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hill, Sherman, Meroni, Gross & Simpson, John D. Simpson, Lewis T. Steadman, Robert A. Stenzel, John T. Loughlin, Victor E. Grimm, William R. Carney, Bell, Boyd, Lloyd, Haddad & Burns, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant, The Dole Valve Company.

William Marshall Lee, Richard G. Lione, Gerald D. Hosier, Hume, Clement, Hume & Lee, George E. Hale, George W. K. Snyder, Jr., Wilson & McIlvaine, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellee, Perfection Bar Equipment, Inc.

Before DUFFY, Senior Circuit Judge, KERNER, Circuit Judge, and GRANT, District Judge.


DUFFY, Senior Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant (Dole) charges Perfection Bar Equipment, Inc. (Perfection) with infringement of the Wallace R. Kromer Patent No. 3,162,323 (323) owned by Dole. Perfection filed a counterclaim relating to various antitrust allegations. This counterclaim was severed for separate trial to be held at a later date.

Issued in 1964, the Kromer patent in suit covers a "method of and apparatus for carbonating, cooling, storing, distributing...

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