Crozier-Straub, Inc. v. Graham

BODINE, District Judge.

These three suits were tried together. They are actions brought on the equity side of the court for infringement of the Straub patent, No. 1,-212,840, granted January 16, 1917, held valid. Straub v. Campbell (C. C. A.) 259 E. 570. The record here is quite different from the record below in that case.

The ease of Straub v. Campbell was tried before Judge Orr. He held the patent invalid, but the Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decree of the District Court. Counsel for defendant, for some reason, did not offer in evidence the Patent Office file wrapper, the prior art…