Harold C. Pierce v. Ben-Ko-Matic, Inc., and Benjamin Kobak

FRED M. TAYLOR, District Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon dismissing appellant’s complaint for alleged infringement of Pierce Patent Number 2,927,820 and adjudging claims 4, 5, 6, 7 and 32 of the patent invalid.

The patent in question, Pierce Patent Number 2,927,820, entitled “Street Sweeper Brush Winding Machine”, was issued March 8, 1960 on an application filed October 28, 1955. It is a machine for applying bristles to the broom cores of large rotary brooms used in street sweeping machines. Appellee manufactured a similar…