Legal Opinion
The Bullard Company v. General Electric Company
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided September 7, 1965No. 9866_1PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALBERT V. BRYAN, Circuit Judge.
Its two patents 1 upon devices for control of an automatic machine tool were infringed, The Bullard Company complained to the District Court, by the General Electric Company. 2 Denying the accusation, the latter counterclaimed for a judgment declaring the patents invalid. Decision went for GE solely on non-infringement, without any declaration upon the patents. On Bullard’s appeal we affirm.
The patents comprise combination claims only. The master to whom the cause had been referred sustained the patents, and on the finding that GE’s mechanism embraced, as…
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