STRUTHERS SCIENTIFIC & INT. CORP. v. RAPPL & HOENIG CO.

No. 203, Docket 71-1692.

453 F.2d 250 (1972)

STRUTHERS SCIENTIFIC & INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. RAPPL & HOENIG CO., Inc., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 4, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene F. Buell, Blenko, Leonard & Buell, Pittsburgh, Pa. (Paul A. Beck, Blenko, Leonard & Buell, Pittsburgh, Pa., Delon F. Mousaw, Martin, Dutcher, Cooke, Mousaw & Vigdor, Rochester, N. Y., of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

William A. Drucker, New York City (Peter L. Tailer, New York City, James M. Hartman, Harris, Beach & Wilcox, Rochester, N. Y., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before LUMBARD, HAYS and OAKES, Circuit Judges.


OAKES, Circuit Judge:

This appeal involves the validity of patents on an autoclaving device (No. 3,423,805) and a method of autoclaving concrete blocks (No. 3,275,724). An autoclave, for those uninitiated in the art, is a "strong metallic vessel, gas-tight when closed, used for heating liquids under pressure." Webster's New International Dictionary 156 (1929).

The patents in question initially were issued, effective June 1960, to John B. Klingel, who later...

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