Legal Opinion
Ballantyne Instruments & Electronics, Inc. v. Chester Wagner, an Individual and Henny Penny Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 13, 1965No. 15871_1PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Associate Judge.
Plaintiff-appellee brought an action for declaratory judgment seeking to have Wagner U.S. Patent No. 2,778,736 1 declared invalid. In this action, plaintiffappellee brought a motion for summary judgment which was granted by an order of the District Court which states:
'“The Court finds that each claim of the patent in suit is anticipated by the method for frying chicken in deep fat as disclosed in Quantity Cookery. It follows that since the application for the patent was filed on April 9, 1954, which is more than one year after the publication of Quantity Cookery, the…
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