REEVES INSTRUMENT CORP. v. BECKMAN INSTRUMENTS, INC.

No. 24060.

444 F.2d 263 (1971)

REEVES INSTRUMENT CORPORATION and Dynamics Corporation of America, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. BECKMAN INSTRUMENTS, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

As Modified on Denial of Rehearing June 25, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ford Harris, Jr. (argued), Walton Eugene Tinsley, of Harris, Kiech, Russell & Kern, Los Angeles, Cal., Fowler, Knobbe & Martens, Orange, Cal., for defendant-appellant.

George B. Finnegan, Jr. (argued), Thomas P. Dowling, Alfred P. Ewert, of Morgan, Finnegan, Durham & Pine, New York City, M. Roy Spielman, of Christie, Parker & Hale, Pasadena, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before BARNES, DUNIWAY and WRIGHT, Circuit Judges.


EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

Beckman Instruments appeals a decision of the district court which held that its analog computer check circuit infringed claims 7, 8, and 13 of U. S. Patent No. 2,967,997. We affirm.

I. THE PATENT IN SUIT.

U. S. Patent No. 2,967,997 (hereinafter the "McCoy patent") was issued to Rawley D. McCoy on January 10, 1961 as the result of an application filed April 20, 1955. All right, title and interest in the McCoy...

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