MILLIKEN RESEARCH CORP. v. DAN RIVER, INC.

Appeal No. 83-727.

739 F.2d 587 (1984)

MILLIKEN RESEARCH CORPORATION, Appellant, v. DAN RIVER, INC., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

July 5, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tom Arnold, Houston, Tex., argued for appellant. With him on the brief was Jack C. Goldstein, Houston, Tex.

Roger W. Parkhurst and James A. Oliff, Alexandria, Va., of counsel.

Lewis T. Booker, Richmond, Va., and David Rabin, Greensboro, N.C., argued for appellee. With them on the brief were H.H. Huntley and L.A. Goodson, Jr., Danville, Va.

Before SMITH and NIES, Circuit Judges, and KELLAM, Senior District Judge.


NIES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from the judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, Danville Division (Turk, C.J.), in a patent infringement suit brought by Milliken Research Corporation against Dan River, Inc. for infringement of Milliken's U.S. Patents Nos. 3,254,510 and 3,277,673, to Lesley. The district court held both patents (the Lesley patents) invalid for obviousness under 35 U.S.C. § 103. We affirm....

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