Melling v. Gordon Form Lathe Co.

WESTENHAVER, District Judge.

This is an action under section 4915, R. S. (Comp. St. § 9460), to compel the issue of a patent to plaintiff. The invention in controversy is embodied in patent 1,542,803, issued June 16, 1925, to the defendant, as assignee of the inventors and applicants, Charles Gordon and Alfred W. Redlin. The subject of the invention is certain improvements in forming lathes, designed and intended for the forming and turning of irregular or nongeometrieal forms, particularly cam shafts of automobile engines.

The Gordon & Redlin application, on which defendant’s patent issued,…