Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Ladd

JACKSON, District Judge.

This is a civil action brought pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 145 in which plaintiffs seek judgment authorizing the defendant, Commissioner of Patents, to issue a patent containing claims 1 to 9, inclusive, of application Serial No. 514,106 filed by co-plaintiffs, Thomas H. Rogers, Newell R. Bender, and Theodore B. Burkholder on June 8, 1955. The co-plaintiff, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., is the assignee of the inventors.

No claims were allowed by the Patent Office. After the trial, counsel for plaintiffs withdrew claim 1 from the present action, and thus claims 2 to 9,…