CANRON, INC. v. PLASSER AMERICAN CORP.

No. 78-1655.

609 F.2d 1075 (1979)

CANRON, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PLASSER AMERICAN CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 21, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Clemency, Milwaukee, Wis. (Paul R. Puerner, Michael, Best & Friedrich, Milwaukee, Wis., Joel A. Kolodny, Seawell, McCoy, Dalton, Hughes, Gore & Timms, Norfolk, Va., on briefs) for plaintiff-appellant.

Alfred H. Plyer, Jr., Chicago, Ill. (Daniel C. McEachran, Chicago, Ill., on brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before BREITENSTEIN, WIDENER and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Plaintiff-appellant Canron, Inc., sued Plasser American Corporation, defendant-appellee, for infringement of a patent on a lifting and lining device used on tamping machines in the maintenance of railway tracks. The district court held that Patent Re 29,437 was invalid because anticipatory disclosures of all elements appeared in printed publications available to the public more than one year before the patent application. Hence 35 U.S.C. § 102(b)...

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