READING & BATES CONST. v. BAKER ENERGY RES.

Appeal No. 84-527.

748 F.2d 645 (1984)

READING & BATES CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, Appellant, v. BAKER ENERGY RESOURCES CORPORATION and Baker Marine Corporation, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

November 15, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Dennis Allegretti, Allegretti, Newitt, Witcoff and McAndrews, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., argued for appellant. With him on the brief was Mark T. Banner, Chicago, Ill., Richard B. Warnke, Reading & Bates Const. Co., Tulsa, Ok., of counsel.

Charles De La Garza, Arnold, White & Durkee, of Houston, Tex., argued for appellee. With him on the brief was John F. Lynch, Houston.

Before RICH, KASHIWA, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.


RICH, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from the September 8, 1983, judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, sitting without a jury, holding that U.S. patent No. 4,003,440 ('440) issued January 18, 1977, on the invention of Martin D. Cherrington (Cherrington) and subsequently assigned to appellant Reading & Bates Construction Company for "Apparatus and Process for Drilling Underground Arcuate Paths Utilizing Directional Drill...

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