Standard Paint Co. v. Bird

DALLAS, Circuit Judge.

This suit is brought upon patent bio. 378,520, granted to Truman J. Pearce and Melvin W. Beardsley, assignors, etc., the sole claim whereof is as follows: "As a new article of manufacture and of commerce, paper coated or saturated with maltha, substantially as herein set forth.” Several of the de*510fenses suggested by the record, though considered, need not be separately discussed. No brief on behalf of the defendants was furnished until a considerable time after the hearing. Such postponements are not unusual, but are very unsatisfactory. The argument of 82 printed pages,…