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HARVESTALL INDUSTRIES, INC. v. HOCHSTETLER

No. 80-2646.

656 F.2d 1232 (1981)

HARVESTALL INDUSTRIES, INC. and Vincent B. Steffen, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Levi HOCHSTETLER, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 29, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Robert Henderson, Des Moines, Iowa, for plaintiffs-appellants.

H. W. Reick, Grand Rapids, Mich., for defendants-appellees.

Before SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge. SPRECHER, Circuit Judge, and WYATT, Senior District Judge.

SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs Harvestall Industries and Vincent B. Steffen appeal from a ruling, upon motion for summary judgment, that found invalid Steffen's patent for a grain elevator floor support. We affirm.

The focus of this controversy is a patent, owned by Steffen and licensed to Harvestall, for a base and support of grain storage bins.1 The design, by providing for wire-mesh type interlocking metal rods rather...

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