Henry J. Kaiser Company v. McLouth Steel Corp.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. BACKGROUND OF THIS LITIGATION

A. Steelmaking prior to the tests at Linz, Austria, in 1949

B. The tests at Linz and their results

C. The history of the U. S. patent application

D. - The patent in suit (Suess, et al., No. 2,800,631)

E. The licensing structure of the patent in suit

F. The history of defendant’s operations

G. The issues in this case

II.- THE QUESTION OF VALIDITY

A. Anticipation(1) The Schwarz patent(2) The Miles patent(3) The Potts patent(4) Conclusion

B. Nonobviousness(1) The prior art and the invention by the patentees(2) The meaning of “the avoidance of deep…