UNITED STATES v. SAF-T-BOOM CORPORATION

No. 20175.

431 F.2d 737 (1970)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. SAF-T-BOOM CORPORATION, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

September 30, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ben F. Arnold, Little Rock, Ark., for appellant.

William D. Ruckelshaus, Asst. Atty. Gen., Morton Hollander, T. Hayward Brown, and Vito J. DiPietro, Attys., Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., and Wilbur H. Dillahunty, U. S. Atty., Little Rock, Ark., for appellee.

Before MATTHES, Chief Judge, HEANEY, Circuit Judge, VAN PELT, Senior District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

This suit was filed by the United States of America for the purpose of cancelling United States Letters Patent No. 2,950,016, granted to Arthur J. Thomas on the basis of an application filed in 1958, and which patent was subsequently assigned by him to Saf-T-Boom.1 It is well settled that in the interest of protecting the public from the monopoly of a patent procured by fraud, such patent should be annulled, and that the only...

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