Blanc v. Smith

DEWEY, District Judge.

The above entitled action came on for hearing in open court at Des Moines, Iowa, on the 2nd day of January, 1943, on objections filed by the defendant to interrogatories propounded to him by the plaintiff.

The objections to the interrogatories are, in effect: 1st, that they ask for an opinion on the construction of claims of the patent in suit; 2nd, that they call for legal conclusions; and 3d, that the requests for information regarding the construction of a device with certain elements do not call for elements covered by plaintiff’s claims and are therefore immaterial.

Th…