Tinker & Rasor v. Pipeline Inspection Co.

RIDGE, District Judge.

In this action for patent infringement the issues raised in defense are prior art and misuse. Plaintiff has served a list of sixteen interrogatories, to each of which defendant has not made answer but submitted its objections thereto to the Court.

This is the type of action in which the liberal use of the discovery procedure can be of the greatest value. The pleadings here, as usual in an action Of this character, are very broad and of necessity lead to a great maze of factual data. In such instances the interrogatory procedure of Rule 33, Fed.Rules Civ. Proc. 28 U.S.C.A.…