Legal Opinion
Maloney-Crawford Tank Corporation v. Rocky Mountain Natural Gas Co., Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided April 8, 1974No. 73-1801PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HILL, Circuit Judge.
Maloney-Crawford Tank Corporation (Maloney) brought this patent infringement action against Rocky Mountain Natural Gas Company (Rocky Mountain) to obtain damages for, and injunc-tive relief against, alleged infringement of United States Letters Patent Nos. 2,804,940 and 2,804,941.
The patents, a result of the necessity to dehydrate natural gas being transported in pipelines, involve an apparatus known as a calcium chloride dehydrator. It was designed to prevent gas from reacting with the water in the gas, thereby forming solid hydrates which plug the flow of gas in the…
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