Legal Opinion
Merck & Co., Inc. v. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided March 3, 1958No. 7473_1PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit upon the product claims of patent No. 2,703,302, entitled “Vitamin B12-Active Composition and Process of Preparing Same,” issued to Rickes and Wood, assignors of the plaintiff, Merck, on March 1, 1955, upon an application dated December 8, 1952 1 . The District Court held the product claims invalid, upon the grounds that they covered a “product of nature” and that there was lack of invention. Merck & Company, Inc., v. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp., D.C.W.D.Va., 152 F.Supp. 690.
We are not here concerned with the process claims of the patent, for they…
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