Palmer v. Sun Oil Co.

KLOEB, District Judge.

This is an action against the defendant based on alleged infringement of the United States Letters Patent No. 2,096,289, issued to the plaintiffs October 19, 1937, upon application filed by Delos M. Palmer on March 8, 1937, on “Machine Drive Arrangement”, a patent containing two claims.

A multitude of defenses are set up in the answer. They are noninfringement (Par. 3), invalidity based on prior art patents, of which defendant cites sixty-eight in its answer (Par. 5), invalidity because of prior use by persons named in the prior art patents cited, including the use by…