NASHUA CORPORATION v. RCA CORPORATION

Nos. 7540, 7553.

431 F.2d 220 (1970)

NASHUA CORPORATION, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. RCA CORPORATION, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

August 3, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William K. Kerr, New York City, with whom David W. Plant, Paul L. Brown, Fish & Neave, New York City, William R. Hulbert, and Fish & Richardson, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for RCA Corp.

L. William Bertelsen, Boston, Mass., with whom Robert J. Horn, Jr., Herbert P. Kenway, Kenway, Jenney & Hildreth, Boston, Mass., Joseph M. Kerrigan, Chester H. Lopez, and Hamblett, Kerrigan, LaTourette & Lopez, Nashua, N. H., were on brief, for Nashua Corp.

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


COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

The principal question presented by these cross appeals is whether the district court erred in holding invalid as obvious an RCA patent — Greig patent 3,052,540 [hereinafter sometimes patent '540] — which specified 29 organic dyes which increase the sensitivity of the electrophotographic copying paper used in many office copying machines.

Harold Greig, a scientist employed by RCA, obtained the patent in 1962 on the basis...

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