Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. v. General Electric Co.

McGARRAGHY, District Judge.

This is an action under Sec. 146, 35 United States Code, in which the plaintiff, Minnesota Mining and Manufactur ing Company, as assignee of Leo H. Sommer and Edward W. Pietrusza, seeks a judgment that said Sommer and Pietrusza were the first, original and joint inventors of the subject matter defined in counts 3 and 4 of an interference proceeding before the Patent Office, and that plaintiff, as assignee, is entitled to receive letters patent of the United States for said invention. These counts 3 and 4 of the interference are identical with claims 37 and 38 of an…