JAMESBURY CORPORATION v. WORCESTER VALVE COMPANY

No. 71-1018.

443 F.2d 205 (1971)

JAMESBURY CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WORCESTER VALVE COMPANY, Inc., Defendant, v. E. W. BLISS COMPANY, Intervener, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 26, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Tilberry, Cleveland, Ohio, with whom Robert V. Vickers, James W. McKee, Meyer, Tilberry & Body, Cleveland, Ohio, and Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellant.

Robert F. Conrad, Washington, D. C., with whom Bowditch, Gowetz & Lane, Worcester, Mass., was on brief for The Jamesbury Corp., appellee.

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


COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

This diversity action1 in contract concerns the ownership of patent No. 2,945,666 (patent '666), which was developed by Howard G. Freeman, president of The Jamesbury Corporation. Jamesbury, the appellee, initially brought suit for infringement of the '666 patent against Worcester Valve Company, Inc. E. W. Bliss Company, the appellant, intervened in that suit, claiming ownership of the '666 patent. At trial below...

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