Reynolds-Southwestern Corp. v. Dresser Industries, Inc.

TUNKS, Chief Justice.

For a number of years Vining T. Reynolds, one of the appellants, has been professionally engaged in exploration for oil and gas by use of seismograph. Before May 30, 1964, he conceived and worked on a machine called “Vibration Recording Interpreter.” The purpose of that machine was to assist in the mechanical interpretation of data recorded by seismograph in such exploration. On that date, May 30, 1954, he completed the construction of the working model of such machine. On June 14, 1954, he filed an application for patent on it.

In 1954, Keith Beeman and Richard Parker…