Haloro, Inc. v. Owens-Corning Fibreglas Corporation

The appeal is from a judgment of the District Court in favor of the defendant company following a trial upon the merits of an action for infringement of a patent for a spun glass roofing mop. 1 The court held that the patent, which the court had authorized to be granted to plaintiff’s assignors in earlier R.S. 4915 proceedings, 2 was unenforceable because the patent had been procured by the fraud and inequitable conduct of plaintiff’s assignors in those proceedings. The bases of the finding of fraud and inequitable conduct were representations and testimony as to the universal adoption and…