Mahaffy and Harder Engineering Company v. Standard Packaging Corporation

ALBERT V. BRYAN, Circuit Judge:

Patent No. 3,125,839, to be designated as 839, covering an element of a vacuum packaging apparatus and issued to Reid A. Mahaffy and John R. Harder on March 24, 1964, upon an application filed May 3, 1962, was declared invalid by the District Judge for obviousness, lack of invention and overclaiming. Since we agree that the patented device was obvious and so lacked invention, we affirm.

The patentees’ exclusive licensee, appellant Mahaffy & Harder Engineering Company, a New Jersey corporation engaged in designing and making machinery, brought an infringement suit…