Flintkote Co. v. National Asbestos Mfg. Co.

RUNYON, District Judge.

The plaintiff herein is the owner of two patents, the first one, No. 908,125, granted December 29,1908, known as the Overbury patent, and the second, No. 1,410,018, granted March 21, 1922, and known as the Kiracofe patent, and the issues of validity and infringement of both patents are here involved, inasmuch as the machine used by defendant, it is claimed, infringes the Kiracofe patent, while the product thereof is alleged to infringe the Over-bury patent.

These patents relate to the roofing industry, and to that phase thereof which deals with the manufacture of…