R. M. Hollingshead Co. v. Bassick Mfg. Co.

DENISON, Circuit Judge.

In Lyman Mfg. Co. v. Bassick Mfg. Co., 18 F.(2d) 29, we held the Gullborg patent, No. 1,307,734, valid as to certain claims and contributorily infringed by Larkin, through the sale of his compressor or grease gun for the purpose of being used in connection with plaintiff’s pin fittings to make up the combination described in these claims. The Circuit Court of Appeals of the Seventh Circuit; in Larkin Automotive Parts Co. v. Bassick Mfg. Co., 19 F.(2d) 944, sustained the Zerk patent, No. 1,475,980, and held that the devices manufactured by Larkin infringed claims of this…