Clark Noe v. W. D. Smith

This is an appeal from a final judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, dismissing with prejudice appellant’s complaint of infringement of his patent on an underground drainage and disposal system.

Holding appellant’s device unpatentable and the patent invalid by reason of lack of novelty and invention, the trial court entered findings of fact to the effect that the drainage and disposal system on which the patent had been issued had no new, different, or inventive principle, function, or advantage over the prior art and use in the field, in…