Legal Opinion
Kansas Jack, Inc., Appellant/cross-Appellee v. Charles J. Kuhn and Kuhn Manufacturing Company, Inc., Appellees/cross-Appellants
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided October 12, 1983No. Appeal 83-638, 83-643PublishedCited by 109 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARKEY, Chief Judge.
Appeal from a judgment of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California holding that claims 1, 2, and 11 of U.S. Patent 3,566,667 (Hagerty patent) are invalid, and that William K. Hagerty (Hagerty) did not commit fraud on the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). We affirm.
BACKGROUND
The Hagerty patent, for which the application was filed on October 28, 1968, and which issued on March 2,1971, discloses and claims a vehicle frame straightening device, best illustrated in Fig. 1:
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Chain 30, one end of which is connected to the frame to be…
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