Legal Opinion

Montgomery v. Marzall

Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

Decided March 29, 1951No. 10655_1PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WILBUR K. MILLER, Circuit Judge.

This is a patent case. A complaint filed under R.S. § 4915, 35 U.S.C.A. § 63, by William J. Montgomery, the inventor, and The Champion Paper and Fibre Company, his assignee, was dismissed by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The court held the claims in issue, which have to do with an improvement in the manufacture of "cast coated” paper, are vague and indefinite at the precise point of novelty, and fail to point out the invention with the distinctness contemplated by R.S. § 4888, 35 U.S.C.A. § 33. We are asked to reverse that…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. General Electric Co. v. Wabash Appliance Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1938
  2. Smith v. SnowSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
  3. United Carbon Co. v. Binney & Smith Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1942
  4. Gulf Smokeless Coal Co. v. Sutton, Steele & Steele.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1929
  5. Waxham v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1935

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3Cited by7 opinions

  1. L-O-F Glass Fibers Company and Everett J. Cook v. Robert C. Watson, Commissioner of PatentsCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1955
  2. Larsen v. Marzall, Commissioner of PatentsCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1952
  3. Shell Development Co. v. Pure Oil Co.District Court, District of Columbia · 1953
  4. Georgia Kaolin Co. v. Thiele Kaolin Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1955
  5. Lamina Dies & Tools, Inc. v. Robert C. Watson, Commissioner of PatentsCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1956

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