Legal Opinion
Manufacturing Research Corp. v. Graybar Electric Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 9, 1982No. 80-5333PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VANCE, Circuit Judge:
This appeal involves the validity of three patents held by plaintiffs for manual and hydraulic cable benders. After a jury trial, the district court held the three patents valid and held that defendant had infringed them by manufacturing and marketing two cable benders, one manually operated and one hydraulically operated. We reverse and remand for further proceedings.
On October 19, 1971 the United States Patent Office issued patent 3,613,430 (the ’430 patent) to Silas R. Crees based on an application filed July 25, 1969. This patent was for a hydraulically powered cable…
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