Larson v. Crowther

KENYON, Circuit Judge.

Early in 1918 appellant, Larson, and appellee, Crowther, filed applications in the Patent Office for patents upon process and apparatus hereinafter described. The Crowther applications were first filed, closely followed by those of Larson. In a general way it may be said that the process of which each claimed to be the original inventor was based on the idea of the disrupting or destroying of bacteria by subjecting the same to a gas, such as carbon dioxide, which would go into solution readily at 'high pressure, and when the organisms were impregnated therewith to…