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AMERICAN CAN CO. v. CROWN CORK & SEAL CO., INC.

No. 81-2500.

693 F.2d 653 (1982)

AMERICAN CAN COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 17, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Randolph Wilson, Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellant.

H. Francis Delone, Dechert, Price & Rhoads, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant-appellee.

Before WOOD and ESCHBACH, Circuit Judges, and CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge.

HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff, American Can Company, charged defendant, Crown Cork & Seal Company, Inc., with violating American's 1967 patent on a one piece seamless cup-like steel container and the drawing and ironing process for making it.** Crown, with a similar product, denied infringement and further claimed that the patent was invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) because American had put its patented invention...

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