Legal Opinion
Clarence H. Stevenson, Iii, an Individual and F M C Corporation, a Corporation v. Diebold, Incorporated, a Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 4, 1970No. 23227_1PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUNIWAY, Circuit Judge:
Diebold appeals from a judgment holding certain claims of appellees’ patent valid and infringed 1 and awarding dam ages of $404,470.50 plus interest for the infringement. 2 The patent at issue is No. 2,815,846, owned by appellee Stevenson and exclusively licensed to appellee FMC. We reverse.
The invention covered by the Stevenson patent relates to feeding and orienting devices for automatic pallet loading machines. The invention seeks to position articles such as cartons moving on a conveyor so as automatically to stack them on a pallet in a predetermined interlocking…
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- United States v. AdamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Anderson's-Black Rock, Inc. v. Pavement Salvage Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1969
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